This paper reports a study on the perception of Malaysian on the implementation of the

The paper reports and discusses a study which was conducted on 490 Muslim respondents from the young generation between the ages 18 to 40 years. The study aimed to identify the popularity of the Islamic banking system among the students of the National University of Malaysia, and the role of Islamic education in promoting the Islamic banking system to the respondents. The findings of the study could be used to popularise further the Islamic banking system in the country. The respondents were selected randomly from The National University of Malaysia. Each respondent was given a booklet of questionnaires containing statements with given choices of yes or no answers as well as the open ended questions. The responses were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), to obtain the percentages of the responses. The findings of the study indicated that the Islamic banking system was very popular among the younger generation. About 63% of respondents kept their savings in the Islamic banking system. The findings also shown that the respondents who are most inclined towards the system were those who had been educated in the Islamic education system. 85.0% of the students of the Islamic Studies Faculty saved their money in the Islamic banking system, followed by the respondents from the Faculty of Education (73%) and also the Faculty of Law (72.3%). The controlled groups i.e. the respondents from the other faculties, where the Islamic education was not thought, the percentages of the respondents who saved in the Islamic banking system were much lower.

This paper reports a study on the perception of the people toward the need of science and technology to follow religious ethics. 640 respondents participated in the study. The respondents, male and female from the age of 20 to 55 years who were obtained randomly from all over the Malaysia were given booklets containing statements on various issues on science and technology. The raw data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), to obtain the means and the percentages of the responses, and the difference of mean were tested using the t-test and one-way ANOVA. The results of the study show that 79.2% of the respondents accepted the statement that "Science and technology should follow religious ethics", while 6.5% of the respondents rejected it. The result of the study also shows that the difference of means between the respondents based on the gender is not significant, but between the respondents based on the academic backgrounds. Moreover, the age groups and also the religions backgrounds are all significant. Hence, the findings of the study could be used by the government to map out the future planning for educating the people on the importance of ethics in science and technology.