Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many student teachers qualifying in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982 have not yet found jobs in the teaching profession.
§ Dr. BoysonThis information is not readily available. However, surveys carried out in the autumns of 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982 indicated that, respectively, 7,000, 6,000, 6,000 and 5,000 teachers who had successfully completed training in the previous summer, had not obtained teaching posts in the United Kingdom.