Hundreds of vocational courses will effectively be axed under a Government overhaul of qualifications for teenagers.
Ministers will step in to prevent pupils opting for "dead end" courses that fail to prepare them for higher education or the world of work.
The Coalition will today outline plans to ban many of these qualifications from official school or college league tables - stopping heads pushing pupils onto courses simply to inflate their ranking.
Ofqual, the exams regulator, will also be told to take a tougher stance towards exam standards in a move designed to ensure many poor-quality courses fail to win state accreditation. It will enable more money to be spent on higher level apprenticeships.
Under Labour, the number of vocational courses on offer to teenagers more than doubled.
In 1996/7, some 2,254 different qualifications could be taken, but by 2009/10 that number had ballooned to 5,620.
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