The introduction of the new teacher education model that includes competences and educator roles has marked a major change in teacher preparation programmes. The purpose of this study was to ascertain how novice educators perceive the new teacher education programme, that is, to find out whether novice educators perceive the teacher education training programme as adequate. In this context, novice educators are educators who have taught for 18 to 24 months after completing the teacher education programme. A questionnaire was administered to 897 novice educators who completed their teacher education in 2004 and 2005. The results reveal that the novice educators perceived the programme as inadequate. The novice educators indicated that the programme did not prepare them adequately for the teaching profession.