The SDLP's Pat Ramsey was concerned that the minister might be deploying "social engineering" to achieve his aims regarding both Stranmillis and St Mary's University College, the Belfast-based Catholic teacher training college.
Questions to the minister were dominated by issues around St Mary's University College, Belfast.
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Emmett Rice from St Malachy's College, Belfast, said environmental eco-tourism was more profitable for local communities than fishing.
On a different note, congratulations to the pupils from Belfast's Methodist College who have emerged as one of the UK winners of a BBC Schools Debate competition.
Katheen Gormley spent ten years as principal of St Cecilia's College, a Catholic girls' secondary school in Londonderry, and is now principal of Hazelwood Integrated College in Belfast.
Loyalist and republican paramilitaries gave interviews to Mr McIntyre and journalist Ed Moloney for the college's Belfast Project, an examination of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
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Loyalist and republican paramilitaries gave interviews to Mr McIntyre and journalist Ed Moloney for Boston College's Belfast Project, an examination of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
The BBC's Ireland correspondent Andy Martin said that those close to Boston College's Belfast Project say that the death of Dolours Price means that her recorded interviews will now simply be handed over as a matter of course.
They were made as part of Boston College's 'Belfast Project', which was designed to be an oral history of Northern Ireland's Troubles.
Mr Farry informed MLAs there was not sufficient support within the assembly to pass the legislation required to merge Stranmillis University College and Queen's University Belfast.
Its research was led by a team from University College Cork (UCC) but involved academics from five institutions, including Queens University in Belfast (QUB).
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