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Every grade in every qualification in every school to be shown as Gove pushes for more transparency.
Huge new league tables showing exactly which grades every school has achieved in each individual qualification could be released by the Government as soon as next year, The TES has learned.
Ministers believe the huge quantity of highly detailed data on school exam performance will overcome any criticism that retaining vocational "equivalents" in the main GCSE league table measure diminishes their transparency.
They plan to make the expanded league tables central to the Government's drive to counter the recent "explosion" in the number of "sub-standard" vocational courses being taken in schools, flagged up in last week's Wolf report.
"We will publish as much data as possible so parents and teachers can really see what is going on in schools," a source close to education secretary Michael Gove said.
"This proper transparency will drive best...