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.
Courtillot, a close associate of former science minister Claude Allègre, stayed in his post after Allègre was sacked last March.
This rate substantially exceeds rates reported in a recent alumni survey of former science majors at Emory (unpublished data).
He came from an eminent New York family, and his father, a Wall Street attorney and a patron of the arts, was a neighbor, in Martha's Vineyard, of Jerome Wiesner, the former science adviser to President John F. Kennedy.
Universities remain, in the words of Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a former science adviser to the cabinet, "insular, hierarchical and male-dominated".
Mark Henderson is head of communications at the Wellcome Trust, former science editor of the Times and author of The Geek Manifesto.
Mark Henderson is head of communications at the Wellcome Trust and former science editor of the Times.
Companies need to convince policy makers that they do indeed want change, said Juan Costa Climent, a former science minister of Spain and now head of climate change and sustainability at Ernst & Young, the consulting firm.
Married to the late Walter Seager Sullivan, Jr., former science editor of The New York Times, for more than 45 years.
Now it has a political programme, The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson, a former science editor of the Times.
He mentioned a former science student of his, Danny Moyer, who had gone to W.V.U., then to graduate studies at U.C.L.A., and eventually to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he had worked on the Mars rover.
