Gerard Howlin: Returning college students are the next unexploded timebomb

This is much more complicated than school. There is no time-out chair in college, and time is running out

There are conflicting responses to reopening third-level institutions. Picture: Maura Hickey

The focus this week is on schools reopening. Next Monday it will shift to the Leaving Certificate. In about a fortnight, the spotlight moves on to third level. 

Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) set the pace, in a story broken in this newspaper, announcing that all lectures, tutorials, and practical classes will be delivered remotely for this academic year because of Covid-19.  The few exceptions will be laboratory work.