Comments form a Radio 5 investigation .... linked form the BBC education site.
"If you are a head teacher you'd want to get the best results you could and so you seek out the best awarding body offering the best way forward.
"The awarding bodies know that and so they make it possible for everybody to succeed.
"So everybody is pushing at the edges of the rules. It's the professional foul really, it's the sleight of hand - everybody is testing the tolerance to the limit."
This is the view of Professor Mick Waters, a former director at the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - the body responsible for overseeing educational standards in England, until it was dissolved earlier this year.
Speaking to 5 live Investigates he also claims that the new exam regulator for England, The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) is a "toothless" watchdog, incapable of dealing with the problem.
Professor Waters' comments have been strongly denied by Ofqual, but they are likely to inflame the ongoing row over academic standards and specifically the publication of league tables, which have been the subject of controversy ever since they were introduced in 1992.
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