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But Lib Dem peer and former education spokesman, Lord Willis, said the expansion of free schools would depend on allowing providers to make a profit.
BBC: Nick Clegg rules out running free schools for profit
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Lord Hill, who was political secretary to John Major in the 1990s and a special adviser to Ken Clarke in the 1980s, was made a peer and became an education minister after the coalition came to power in May 2010.
BBC: Lord Strathclyde resigns from cabinet
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Getaround is also working with the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium to research peer-to-peer car-sharing with the aim of a wider nationwide roll-out.
FORBES: Getaround Brings Car-Sharing To Oregon With Federal Grant
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However, even though these initiatives can be revolutionary, they are too weak in collaboration and peer learning, key points of successful education.
FORBES: Unishared: Revolution in Online Education Beyond Coursera, Edx, and Udacity
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Mr. Johnson envisions a new political movement that embraces the potential of peer networks to improve government, medicine, education and journalism, among much else.
WSJ: Book Review: Future Perfect
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Through trial and error, peer mentoring, following in family footsteps, education and sometimes modest sums of money, most people like you and I can learn to become an SBE.
FORBES: Can Entrepreneurship Be Learned?
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Key technology leaders are striving to increase access to education through low-cost or free peer-to-peer and open-source models.
FORBES: How Alternative Education Can Help Bridge The Skills Gap
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Several senior members of the current government once went to the grammar schools that were shut by Crosland and his successors, such as Shirley Williams (a 1970s education secretary, now a Liberal Democrat peer).
ECONOMIST: Education
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Crossbench peer and former chief inspector of prisons Lord Ramsbotham recommended that the same programmes of education and reform be used for criminals in and out of prison.
BBC: Prison reform plans welcomed by Lib Dem peer
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Finally, crossbench peer the Earl of Clancarty asked the government what support it would give to music education under the National Plan for Music Education published on 25 November 2011.
BBC: Peer: Parliament should take on more interns