The Class of 81

Overview

For-the past 12 months Panorama has been following the fortunes of the 250 school leavers at Craig-bank Secondary School in Glasgow. John Stapleton follows what happened to them In their preparation and search for a job during the worst recession since the 1930s. Headmaster. Norman Macleod sums up their prospects: ' We've bien preparing them for what is sometimes laughingly cal-led the world of work, and here, at the brink, when they are about to leave school, they find this world of work is further away than it ever was.'