The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has set out new reforms to secondary education in Britain.

Under the proposals, education is to be tailored to children's "aptitudes and abilities".

At the same time, the content of the small core of compulsory subjects that all pupils will continue to study after 14 is to be radically "modernised" to make it more relevant to "their future lives as workers and citizens".

And from the start of the next academic year, schools will have to provide every pupil with a "negotiated individual learning plan" that takes account of his or her "skills, interests, aspirations and preferences".

The QCA said the aim was to reduce the proportion of pupils who left full-time education and training at 16.

The Telegraph says the reforms amount to "an admission that 30 years of comprehensive education have failed".