And today I want to invite the MPs in those communities to work with me to open up the education system in their areas to the new providers who can raise standards.

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She said this would be an "exciting opportunity" to "open up and free" the education system.

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We'll open up opportunity -- evenly and equitably -- across our education system.

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Bolder ideas are needed to open up Britain's restrictive schools system, in which local-education authorities seldom sanction the creation of new schools while there are surplus places at existing ones, however awful.

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Most of that criticism has evaporated, experts say, but some add that the open-adoption system needs refining, with better training for social workers and education for expectant parents.

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