On the right, some will say that the move will devalue the grandes ecoles – that was the reaction of former Sciences-Po students when a scheme was launched in 2001 introducing a separate admissions system for pupils from disadvantaged lycees.
Meanwhile, the former Science minister, Lord Willetts, confessed to feeling "romantic" about Britain's spacefaring future.
Ron Bonn San Diego, Aug. 15, 2010 The writer is a former science producer for network evening newscasts.
Or Gina Cooper, a former science teacher who organized the convention of liberal bloggers that became Netroots Nation.
Scientology was founded in 1952 by a former science fiction writer, L Ron . Hubbard
Married to the late Walter Seager Sullivan, Jr., former science editor of The New York Times, for more than 45 years.
Mark Henderson is head of communications at the Wellcome Trust and former science editor of the Times.
Wanted: 50 former science majors with an interest in teaching — no experience, please — and a willingness to relocate.
"He managed to persuade the heavyweights," Frederic Golden, a former science writer and editor at Time and Discover, said.
Lord David Sainsbury, the former science minister, also heir to the supermarket chain and John Sainsbury's cousin, gave £1m.
Universities remain, in the words of Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a former science adviser to the cabinet, "insular, hierarchical and male-dominated".
