ATTITUDES OF RURAL FAMILIES' HEADS TOWARDS ENROLLING THEIR CHILDREN IN THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN SOME VILLAGES OF KAFR EL SHEIKH DISTRICT

The research aimed to determine the knowledge of families' heads about the importance of the technical education, the reasons that led the heads of families to enroll their children in the technical education, attitudes of rural families' heads towards enrolling their children in the technical education; and determining the problems facing when enrolling their children to the technical education and their proposals to overcome them. The research was conducted on 120 respondents from the heads of rural families who have children in preparatory education, as the largest administrative district was selected; from which the three largest villages in terms of the number of students in preparatory education were selected. Data were collected through a questionnaire during February and March 2019. After that, the data have been discharged and analyzed statistically, tables, percentages, simple correlation coefficient, Chi square, and average degree were used .The results showed the following: The reason that technical education provides the student with the skills that enable him to perform his work ranked first. The reason for escaping from the high school education conflict was ranked first in the reasons that encourage the families to enroll their children in the technical education. The results indicated that there was an average general tendency for the respondents to enroll their children in the technical education. There was a positive significant relationship between the number of family members of families' heads and their knowledge of the importance of the technical education. There was a negative significant relationship between the monthly income of the families' heads and their knowledge of the importance of the technical education. There was a significant relationship between the profession, the educational status of the respondents and their knowledge of the importance of the technical education. There was a positive significant relationship between the age of the respondents and their opinion about the importance of the reasons that encourage them to enroll their children in the technical education. There was a negative significant relationship between the monthly income of the respondents and the importance of the reasons that encourage them to enroll their children in the technical education. There was a positive significant relationship between the area of agricultural holdings, the monthly income, the cultural openness, and the age of the respondents and their tendency to enroll their children in the technical education. The most important problems that hinder the respondents when enrolling their children in the technical education were: weak financial and human resources in the technical schools to train students practically, low societal outlook for the technical education compared to the university education, and lack of job opportunities for graduates. The most important proposals of the respondents to overcome the problems that hinder them to enroll their children in the technical education were: Re-consideration by the State in the interest of the development of technical education and increase its budget, and provide employment opportunities for graduates in the form of profitable projects and facilitate their procedures without mediation or nepotism, commensurate with the labor market. The research siggested several recommendations derived from its results.