The move is designed to ensure a sharper separation between creating academic targets, and reporting on how successful learners have been in passing them.
At present the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is responsible for developing and regulating standards.
Under the proposals an independent regulator, the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator, will be set up to monitor progress against standards. The QCA will continue to develop these.
The regulator will report to Parliament, whereas the QCA reports to ministers.
Ken Boston, the chief executive of QCA, told MPs on the Department for Children, Schools and Families Select Committee the proposals make sense.
He said the QCA currently has to both ensure standards remain at a consistent level year on year, and report to ministers on whether more children and young people have succeeded in passing them.
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