Environmental awareness among sustainable science student in UMK Jeli, Kelantan

Human activities such as deforestation, mining, open burning and others had cause pollution towards the environment. Thus, the environmental awareness needs to be implemented so as not to give implications to human health and the environment. A total of 110 respondents from Sustainable Science student in UMK Jeli have been involved in the study. The objectives of this study were to determine the knowledge, attitude and practices of Sustainable Science student in UMK Jeli. The results for environmental knowledge, attitude and practices were analysed using SPSS version 20 and were tested by using Cronbach Alpha test to test reliability before the actual studies. In this study, the result of independent t-test had shown that the environmental awareness of male is higher than female. Besides, the second-year and third-year student has higher environmental awareness compared to first-year student. Chinese students were recorded to the highest environmental awareness compared to Malay, Indian and other races. The result shows that the duration of study has affected the student awareness. Thus, environmental education has played an important role to spread awareness among students. Therefore, the government and NGO’s should conduct a campaign which involves the community at all age to raise the awareness of public. Early sustainable education also should be taught to the students so that they will have more knowledge about the environment.