The New Faculty Orientation (NFO) is an essential program designed to introduce new faculty and teaching staff to the teaching and learning environment at HKUST. This comprehensive program includes 3 compulsory sessions and 4 optional deep-dive sessions, covering the undergraduate curriculum, our student demographics, teaching insights from award-winning professors, and essential eLearning platforms at HKUST.

Southeast and East Asian countries have not only caught up with Western countries in academic performance but have even overtaken them in many areas. However, in many countries, this has led to a decline in the subjective well-being of the students, culminating in harmful experiences of stress, externalized behavior, depression, and even suicide.