Newly Qualified Graduate Teachers: The Search for Employment

The Unemployment of Newly Trained Post‐graduate Teachers

“…This award not only attracted more young people to the profession but encouraged existing teachers to stay on . By the late 1970s the picture of a decade earlier of excess demand in the teacher labour market had turned full circle to one of excess supply (see Henderson et al, 1980;Zabalza et al, 1979, Bembaum & Cook, 1983. Bernbaum & Cook, 1984Cook, 1985;Cook, 1986).…”

Teacher Shortages in Mathematics, Physics and Technology

“…This was partly because the rationalisation of educational resources in the wake of falling pupil numbers had resulted in school mergers and redeployment of teachers. Although no evidence of an increase in the numbers of mathematics and physics graduates entering initial training courses had been reported, many teachers, newly-qualified in these subjects, were unable to obtain employment in their preferred teaching subject, age range and location (Bernbaum & Cook, 1984) as suitable jobs tended to be offered preferentially to those teachers already employed by the authority, sometimes without regard to an individual's area of qualification.…”