Mentoring approach in learning fundamentals of Islamic banking / Zanirah Mustafa @ Busu … [et al.]

Diploma in Banking is one of diploma programmes offered at University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Kelantan branch. Students are taught various core courses and noncore courses on banking, finance, business and Islamic studies throughout their six semesters programme. Fundamentals of Islamic banking or CTU351 is a part of the programme requirement, which is a core course for the students at their forth semester (https://aims.uitm.edu.my/curriculum/index). Currently, the traditional approaches of teaching i.e lecture and tutorial are used in the classrooms. The lecturers concerned will give talks and discourses on topics based on the contents of the course information. Then, further discussions on selected topics or presentations by the students will be done in tutorials. Based on the present approach, we believe that the contents might not be current or up to date due to lack of knowledge and experience among the lecturers. Because of that, we propose a mentoring approach in teaching CTU351 at the campus.

The main objective of this study is to investigate the perception of students on mentoring approach in learning Fundamentals of Islamic Banking. In particular, the study aims to achieve two main objectives which are to determine the difference in mean perception on mentoring approach in learning Fundamentals of Islamic Banking across selected students’ profiles and to identify the factors affecting the learning of Fundamentals of Islamic Banking.