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Since the filling of the said suit, the Governor has become restless and irritant and has ordered the Chief Security Officer...

Since the filling of the said suit, the Governor has become restless and irritant and has ordered the Chief Security Officer...

The intention of the controversial pre-test questionnaire was to examine first year students in a variety of categories such as reading and mathematics to determine their competencies upon arrival into secondary school. That was the explanation from Chief Education Officer, Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw, who speaking at a press conference at the Ministry’s Constitution Road headquarters in Bridgetown on Saturday afternoon. She was responding to questions from the media about the …

There will be no more survey-type questionnaires distributed in any school in Barbados until the data collection and ethics policy has been developed and vetted. That was the message coming from Minister of Education Kay McConney, who was speaking at a press conference at the Ministry’s Constitution Road headquarters in Bridgetown on Saturday. She was responding to the outrage and demands for accountability from parents and the general public surrounding …

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 sanctioning the test that was said to be commissioned by code.org, the IDB admitted its fault in no...