It is not only in the debating halls of Trinity College and University College Dublin where lively opinion-bashing can be heard.

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Cardiff University and University of Wales College of Medicine merged in 2004, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama joined the University of Glamorgan Group in 2007 and the University of Wales, Lampeter, and Trinity University College, Carmarthen, joined forces this year.

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Professor of Physiology and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Oxford, Frances Ashcroft is one five exceptional women scientists from around the world, one from each continent, who will be recognised for their contribution to science at an awards ceremony, held at UNESCO in March 2012.

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Paulson joined AllPolitics in December, 1999 and is a graduate of Hartford's Trinity College and George Washington University.

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In 1960 he worked at an international school in the Netherlands before being appointed as a senior lecturer at the then Trinity College, Carmarthen (which is now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David) where he stayed until he retired.

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He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from New York University in 1982, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Yeshiva University in 1986 and from Trinity College in 2005.

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Trinity College, Carmarthen said post-graduate applications were up by 17.5% while Swansea University saw a 2.2% rise.

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