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Sandra Davie

Senior Education Correspondent

Sandra is senior education correspondent at The Straits Times. A multiple award-winning journalist, she spent many years in investigative reporting before specialising in education reporting. Besides education, she writes on a range of related issues, including the impact of digital technologies on students, artificial intelligence, reimagining higher education and adult skills. Sandra launched the popular ST Smart Parenting initiative and oversees the annual ST Education Forum.

Latest articles

Should Singapore follow Australia and ban social media for under-16s?

Some parents want the usage of smartphones and social media among teens restricted even further.

How to appeal the secondary school posting results

ST's senior education correspondent Sandra Davie explains how the appeal process works.

Is PSLE stress already getting to you?

Wondering how to support your child in his or her PSLE prep?

What can you do in the final stretch of PSLE revision?

How to pick the right secondary school for your child

Long hours, huge stress and VIPs (very involved parents). So what keeps a teacher in S’pore going?

A recent survey showed teachers in Singapore are the third hardest-working in the world.

Meet Theodore Kwan, Singapore’s youngest chemistry whizz who attends lectures in NTU

Chemistry prodigy Theodore Kwan, seven, holding an isopropyl benzene model he built.

About 6% to 7% of Integrated Programme students leave before completing six years: MOE

Ngee Ann Poly student Tan Zhi En (left) left River Valley High to study biomedical sciences while Nanyang Poly student Kang Wen Yu left after finding it was not a good fit.

askST: What parents can do if their child is targeted by a bully or is a bully

Students using their mobile phones at Bishan MRT station on 23 February 2017.