COTABATO CITY: Education minister Mohagher Iqbal on Wednesday said some of the education sector’s plans in addressing the challenges amid the “new normal.” “Admittedly, the pandemic has slowed down our operations and crusade for long-term reforms since I took my oath as your Education Minister in 2019,” Iqbal said during the third series of “Online Kapihan: Accountable child-based reporting in the new normal.” Accordingly, solutions to the existing problems are further laid out in the Bangsamoro Education Code and highlight the advocacy of No Bangsamoro Child Shall Be Left Behind. Iqbal shared that the ministry would apply innovative, context-based, and inclusive policies or mechanisms across the four sub-sectors on various areas to strengthen the Bangsamoro education system. He said the Ministry of Basic Higher and Technical Education's services, projects and interventions were vastly hampered since the unprecedented emergence of the coronavirus in the country for exactly a year now. He also said the suspension of face-to-face interaction had realigned the education sector's implementation of the Education Continuity Plan for School Year 2020-2021 to provide services for learners amid challenging situations.