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Creative Education 2012. Vol.3, No.4, 439-447 Published Online August 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ce) /10.4236/ce.2012.34068 Beginning Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Training Programme ——Lessons from the Experience of a Cohort of Vanuatu Institute of Teacher Education Graduates Govinda Ishwar Lingam The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Email: govinda.lingam@usp.ac.fj Received June 5th th th , 2012; revised July 10 , 2012; accepted July 28 , 2012 The study reported here sought to determine how a cohort of beginning teachers perceived the training programme they completed at the Vanuatu Institute of Teacher Education to prepare them for the work expected of them in Vanuatu primary schools. All graduates of the programme in the study sample were in their first year of teaching and their opinions were surveyed by means of a self-administered question- naire. Analysis of the data showed that the beginning teachers were generally positive about their training programme though some did express concerns about some important areas of it that they considered need improvement. Substantial implications of the study impinge on three areas: the quality of the teacher training programme; the roles and responsibilities expected of teachers in schools; and the quality of edu- cation provided to the nation’s children. Implicatio