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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

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.

ChatGPT’s tool for students is great in theory, wobbly in practice

Study Mode's real success depends on how students use it and how they are guided and trained to use it.

With social media, do we gain more ‘friends’ but lose ourselves?

Psychologists suggest calibrating our relationship with technology to create space in our lives without our devices so we can be more present with one another.

NUS College draws 10,000 applications for 400 places, showing strong liberal arts interest

Former Raffles Institution student Nor Ilhan Anakin, 21, will be taking up a computing and AI degree at NUS College.

askST: Do degrees from private schools result in jobs and how can I pick a quality one?

Once a graduate is in a job, it is the performance that matters.

Should a 5-year-old be using ChatGPT to learn?

Using generative AI to learn is not just ineffective, it can actually set you back, says the writer.

PAP wins Sembawang GRC with 67.75% of the vote in three-cornered fight

The PAP's Sembawang GRC candidates (from left) Gabriel Lam, Mariam Jaafar, Ong Ye Kung, Vikram Nair and Ng Shi Xuan at Yio Chu Kang Stadium on polling day.