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 used as “guinea pigs”.“I have said to the Minister [of Education Kay McConney] that we need to ensure going forward – and I have had this discussion with a number of people – that clearly we live in an era now where the Ministry would have to establish an ethics review committee to make sure that those things that you go into schools to talk to or to survey with respect to children pass a minimum threshold test. And we are not, therefore, allowing persons to just feel that this is open season for our children,” Mottley said.
