The changes mostly affect Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster.
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He said it could create the incorrect impression that there were "cold houses" for Protestants at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster.
Aston, Bath, Belfast Queens University, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, London Imperial College, London King's College, London School of Economics, London University College, Loughborough, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton, St Andrews, Strathclyde, Warwick and York.
However, a study of Britain's New Deal policies by Duncan McVicar of Queen's University, Belfast, and Jan Podivinsky of the University of Southampton reaches the opposite conclusion.
Queen's University in Belfast has seen an increase in demand but the University of Ulster - while still well oversubscribed - has had fewer applications.
The Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting ran from 31 March to 4 April at Queen's University Belfast.
There was hostility to the Titanic legacy from Catholics, says Liam Kennedy, professor of history at Queen's University Belfast.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast Astrophysics Research Centre, said the light was probably a "random fireball".
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have devised a drug which is being hailed as a "magic bullet" to treat Acute Lung Injury (ALI).
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute and Queen's University Belfast, in the United Kingdom, conducted the new study in response to these reports.
The study was carried out by scientists from Queen's University Belfast.
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.
Lead researcher Dr Anne Lazenbatt, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast, said medical staff faced a tough challenge and needed support when making such hard decisions.
The UUP's Mike Nesbitt said he had examined a report on the horse mussels by Queen's University Belfast and could find no conclusive proof that the problem was caused by any current legal activity.
The asteroid's arrival was preceded by a damaging meteor event in Russia on Friday - but indications from the meteor's path suggest that the two events are entirely unrelated - just a "cosmic coincidence", as Alan Fitzsimmons of Queens University Belfast told BBC News.
He said Lesley had never found out about the affair with a woman he worked with at Queen's University, Belfast.
Pharmacy researchers at Queen's University in Belfast are working on a way to deliver the photosensitiser drug directly to the colon, avoiding side effects.
Its research was led by a team from University College Cork (UCC) but involved academics from five institutions, including Queens University in Belfast (QUB).
It emerged that, due to a reallocation of places for students from Great Britain, a further 308 places would go to Queens University, Belfast.
Panos Lioulias, chief executive of Qubis, a venture-capital outfit that nurtures spin-offs from Queen's University in Belfast, thinks indigenous entrepreneurs are a big part of the remedy.
Questions to the minister were dominated by issues around St Mary's University College, Belfast.
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The TUV's Jim Allister said Stranmillis and St Mary's University Colleges in Belfast had expressed a preference to be reallocated with the Department of Education (DE).
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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.
Sir Hugh was in Belfast on Friday to receive an honorary degree from the University of Ulster.
Belfast born Alvin Jackson, who is a professor at Edinburgh University, says the Home Rule debate in 1912 caught the public's imagination.
Prof Jonathan Moore, lecturer in Irish politics at London Metropolitan University, recalls the experience of an American student who recently visited Belfast's Titanic exhibition.
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