Analysis of the Agricultural Education System in Iran's Agricultural Secondary Schools Using SWOT Technique

Improved living standards and balanced cultural, economic, and social development are guaranteed by sustainable employment for the community members. Therefore, the system of technical and vocational education, which is responsible for preparing skilled and effective human resources, should be continually assessed. The goal of present research was to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) associated with Iran's formal secondary technical and vocational agricultural education and offer strategies for achieving a desirable agricultural secondary education. To fulfill this aim, a SWOT analysis was used to collect and analyze the data. The first step involved identifying the educational system's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. In the second step, some strategies were presented based on those findings. The findings of strategic analysis of the SWOT model indicated the strengths (with a score of 6.52), weaknesses (with a score of 4.80), opportunities (with a score of 7.04), and threats (with a score of 6.88) for the country's secondary agricultural education. Based on the results, it was recommended that the adoption and implementation of aggressive strategies has to be given the highest priority by the policy-makers if they are going to build a desirable secondary agriculture education system. Planning and decision-making should take into account potential strategies such as legislation and the implementation of supporting laws, the allocation of financial and natural resources to graduates, and management and integrated specialized supervision over the operational processes of secondary technical and vocational agricultural schools.