Alarming Test News Today

Prime Minister Mia Mottley says an ethics review committee will be established to prevent a repeat of the Computer Science test fiasco, as she made it clear that her Government will not support Barbados’ school children being subjected to any type of inappropriate exposure.She said that while the Government accepted the apology from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for conducting an improper survey with students, better still needed to be done going forward and children would not be u...

Barbados TODAY broke the story ‘Alarming Test’ in our Tuesday, October 4, edition. Our report stated that the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training administered an exam to first form students at secondary schools across the island. However, some parents complained that the test was “distasteful and invasive”.Parents who spoke to Barbados TODAY said their children were quizzed on their sexuality, gender identity, substance use and abuse as well as personal informati...