Back to School: The Pandemic Edition. As the Education Ministry prepares to begin slowly reopening the school gates, parents and kids across the country are wondering what, exactly, the new school year will hold. The ministry, of course, is yet to release in detail its plans for the coming year. We know that the new year will start on 17 October, and that schools will be implementing some form of blended learning, but what this will mean in practice isn’t yet known. And with the world still very much in the throes of the pandemic, it’s entirely possible that further disruptions lay ahead. This is your Back to School guide to what promises to be one of the more eventful school years of recent times.

---