It suggests many pupils are being taught by teachers who have no higher than an A-level qualification in the subject.
Each GCSE-level qualification and grade is given a score in points, enabling an average point score per pupil to be calculated for each school.
She also welcomed a recommendation that pupils receive the same Welsh Baccalaureate qualification at each level, regardless of whether they do academic or vocational subjects.
The only apparent benefit in cashing in is to enable the student to show the AS level qualification on the UCAS form in their application to Higher Education.
Almost one in four (23.1%) maths teachers - around 7, 500 - do not have a relevant degree-level qualification, along with a fifth (20.1%) of English teachers - around 7, 300 in total.
But, as far as I'm concerned, we are ready to do whatever it takes to carry through what Mike's recommendations will be to assure people of the integrity of the A level qualification, which is so important.
And he has said he intends to return to what he describes as a more rigorous an O-level style qualification, promising more details later in the autumn.
And they should possess an England and Wales Cricket Board Level III coach qualification, or equivalent from another country.
The tutor says 70% of pupils do not have maths beyond GCSE and some of these are not the higher level of the qualification.
Apart from competition from the well-established A-level, the new qualification could also be rivalled by another proposed exam, called the Pre-U, aimed at stretching pupils planning to enter higher education.
More than a third of physics teachers (around 2, 000 teachers), half of those teaching Spanish (around 3, 400), over half of information and communications technology (ICT) teachers (around 9, 200) and more than two in five religious education teachers (around 6, 500) do not hold a relevant qualification higher than an A-level.
The increased level of automation will involve changes in the qualification and training of the employees but can involve a reduction in the number of jobs for entry-level employees in a number of industries.
The AS-level would continue as a separate qualification, the reports suggest.
Recently accredited and available for teaching from September 2008, the Pre-U has been developed by Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) as a university entry qualification likened to a more "traditional A-level".
At the same time the AS-level would no longer be a stepping stone exam that counts towards a full A-level but instead become a stand-alone qualification.
Reducing resit opportunities would disadvantage pupils and the government seemed determined "to reduce the A-level to an elite university entrance exam" rather than a qualification for all young people, she added.
The full rigour of externally-marked exams would be reserved for the advanced level - which would become the dominant, end-of-school academic qualification.
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This week's AS-level results will see the latest stage in what has been a turbulent first year for the new qualification, which will usually be taken in the first year of sixth form.
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