The Role of the Colleges of Education in Spreading the Culture of Entrepreneurship among its Students and Ways to Enhance it

The objective of this study is to know the reality of the colleges of Education's role in spreading the culture of entrepreneurship among their students, to reveal the challenges facing their leaders in fulfilling their role, and to make proposals to strengthen this role. Therefore, the study based on the descriptive methodology, where it surveyed the literature on the subject of the study, and analyzed it, to extrapolate the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship culture, to clarify the relationship between universities and entrepreneurship, and justifications for the interest in entrepreneurship, especially in the colleges of Education and then to clarify the role that the colleges of education can play in spreading the culture of entrepreneurship among students, and to know the main challenges in this regard. The study tools were designed in two tools; the first is a questionnaire applied to a sample of the fourth year students in the colleges of Education in three Egyptian universities (Alexandria, Tanta, Mansoura) to know the reality of the role of colleges of Education in Spreading of entrepreneurship culture to students, and ways to Enhance This role. The second tool was an interview with a sample of leaders of the colleges of education -in these same colleges- to reveal the main challenges facing them in spreading the culture of entrepreneurship among students. The field study revealed a clear weakness in the role of the colleges of education in spreading the culture of entrepreneurship where the percentage reached (53.82%), and the study did not find statistically significant differences between the students' responses depending on their sex. The study revealed that there are statistically significant differences between the responses of students depending on their disciplines and their universities in the fields (supportive environment, business incubators), while the study did not find statistically significant differences in the field of (Education for entrepreneurship) between the three universities. Organizational challenges topped the list of challenges facing the leaders of the colleges of Education in spreading the culture of entrepreneurship among students (88.04%), followed by challenges for the management of the college (82.90%), then community challenges (81.74%), then challenges for students (79.13%), and the challenges related to faculty members (75.36%). The study came up with a set of proposals that contribute to enhancing the role of colleges of Education in spreading the entrepreneurial culture to students. The study classified these proposals into seven areas: motivating students to produce creative ideas, establishing community partnerships to support student entrepreneurs, providing material needs to spread the entrepreneurial culture to students, directing student activities to teach entrepreneurship to students, considering spreading entrepreneurial culture to students is a priority for college leaders, increase interest in student awareness, and finally invest in entrepreneurship educational courses.