Barriers of Entrepreneurship Education Courses Delivering in Agricultural Applied Scientific Education Centers (AASECs); Case of Fars Province, Iran

Entrepreneurship courses had a tremendous potential to improve the knowledge and skills of thestudents in Agricultural Applied-Scientific Education Centers (AASECs) to make a business aftergraduating. This study was designed to analyze barriers of entrepreneurship education coursesdelivering in AASECs in Fars Province. The population of the study consisted of all 1018 students infour AASECs in Fars province (Shiraz, Jahrom, Aliabad Kamin & Marvdasht) in 2010-11 academicyear. A multi-stage stratified random sampling was applied to select 178 students as samples research.The instrument for collecting data was a questionnaire, which its validity was confirmed by a panel ofexperts. In addition, the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was calculated (α= 0.89) that confirmed thereliability of the scale used in the study. The factor analysis results showed that, weakness insupportive and counseling services (19.50%), inadequate of applied education (17.89%), inadequate ofrecognizing of financial and management regulation (11.94%) and weakness in educational planning(11.67%) were the main obstacles in delivering of entrepreneurship education courses in AASECs inthe Fars province. These four factors could explain 61.1% variance of the obstacle variable.