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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has accepted full responsibility for the controversial Computer Science test that was administered to first form students in Barbados on Monday.In a press release issued tonight, the IDB admitted that even though the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training objected to certain questions being included on the test, the test was still disseminated to students in its original format.And while the Ministry of Education came under fire for...

The Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) apology for its controversial survey administered to schoolchildren will not be enough to satisfy the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT). President of the BUT Rudy Lovell said that it's not for the IDB to issue a statement on the matter but the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training. The survey, part of the Code Caribbean project was administered by a United States-based organisation code.org …