The head of Barbados’ leading research institution has no objections to the questions posed in a controversial survey that quizzed students on sensitive issues, although he acknowledged that the right processes were not followed in getting children to take the test.And Professor Clive Landis, the Principal and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus has offered the tertiary institution’s assistance to Government in setting up an ethics review committee to deal with similar matters in the future.Public debate rages on over the survey administered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as part of a wider computer science project, that questioned 733 first-form students from five secondary schools about sexuality, gender identity, substance use, among other issues, without parental consent.Although both the Ministry of Education and the IDB have apologised for the inclusion of the questions which parents, child advocates and other interest groups felt were intrusive and inappropriate, Professor Landis told Barbados TODAY that as far as he was concerned, there was nothing unusual about the contents of the survey.