Trained for Unemployment: A Note on Passivity among Unemployed Teachers

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).…”

“…Bernbaum & Cook, 1984Cook, 1985;Cook, 1986). There have been few studies of teacher unemployment and those which have been undertaken have been incidental to the main intention of discussing teacher demand and supply Thomas, 1978;Zabalza, 1979;Middlebrook, 1979;Blackstone & Crispin, 1982;Coleman, 1985), though articles by Henderson et al (1980); Cook & Bernbaum (1983 together with discourses in the more popular journals and government statistical bulletins has emphasised the importance of the problem (The Guardian, 1980;DES, 1979DES, , 1980DES, , 1981THES, 1980;Acset, 1979).…”