# PDPA compliance for Singapore schools: a 2026 update

> What Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act means for schools choosing a school management ERP in 2026 — consent, retention, data residency and breach notification.

Source: https://edugradup.com/blog/pdpa-compliance-for-singapore-schools-2026/

Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) sets clear expectations for how schools handle student, parent and staff personal data. Any school management ERP serving Singapore institutions in 2026 must demonstrate a credible PDPA posture — not just a checkbox claim.

Key PDPA obligations include explicit consent collection, purpose limitation, data minimisation, retention limits, breach notification within 72 hours, and the right of access and correction. For a school ERP, this translates into auditable consent records, granular data export, automated retention rules and a documented breach response plan.

EduGradUP hosts Singapore tenants in AWS Singapore, maintains a published PDPA posture document, runs annual third-party audits and assigns a named Data Protection Officer to every Singapore deployment.