Towards promoting sustainable agriculture and economic growth, the development of the agricultural workforce and set up of innovative agricultural systems are required. Agricultural educational repositories are systems used for storing, reusing and sharing agricultural learning resources. They contribute to agricultural education at different educational levels and target groups. Thus, this pap...

Non-agricultural income has become an important source of rural household income and has brought with a wide inequality in rural China. This paper investigates the determinants of non-agricultural employment as well as non-agricultural income and then assesses the contribution of these determinants to income inequality with the Chinese Academy of Social Science 2003 survey data and a three-step...

The purpose of study was to identify entrepreneurial personality traits of agricultural students who were studying at Bu-Ali Sina University in 2013 academic year. The study has used a surveying methodology. The study's samples were 150 agricultural students both senior undergraduates and graduates which were selected by a randomized sampling method. Data collection tool was a structured questi...

this study aimed at identifying required competencies for the labor market by the graduates majoring in the agricultural extension education field. the study population included undergraduates, faculty members, and employers, as related to bachelor level in three extension and education departments at bu ali sina, tehran, and shiraz universities of iran. the study has employed both quantitative...

the goal followed in this study was to investigate the barriers that hinder the application of mobile phone technology being communication in agricultural education, from the view points of agricultural extension educators of ardabil province. survey research method was used throughout the study. the line and staff experts comprised the statistic population of the study. a sample consisting of ...

In North Carolina, secondary agricultural education programs can now offer a state adopted integrated biotechnology course entitled Biotechnology and Agriscience Research. Empirical evidence was needed to identify and describe factors related to the intent of agricultural educators to adopt this curriculum in order to assist teachers during this transition. North Carolina agricultural educators...

this research has used a mixed methodology with both quantitative and qualitative approaches. the study population included three groups; the post-graduate students, professors and academic staff at two universities, khouzestan ramin agriculture and natural resources university and bu-ali sina university. for collecting quantitative data among 320 students, 175 were selected using random sampli...

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 ...

This study compared cooperating teachers’ and student teachers’ perceptions of important elements of the student teaching experience and identified selected characteristics of cooperating centers. Forty-nine cooperating teachers and 25 student teachers provided data. Questionnaire items were divided into five “core” areas based on a review of literature. Respondents rated the elements using a s...