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 10 specialist centres are all currently classified as University Colleges, a distinction lost on most of the public but important to the institutions, which say the variety of terms confuses would-be applicants.
For most people, the upgrading of university colleges to full university status will not be controversial, but more might oppose the granting of university status to private institutions - especially if they seek to make a profit.
Large number of senior university, colleges and school teachers were also present as dignitaries in the seminar.
The chancellor also told MPs that the government aimed to create "new university technical colleges" and boost apprenticeship programmes.
He added that employers were helping shape the curriculum in the government's new studio schools and university technical colleges.
David Limb from the University and Colleges Union, who received a letter, said that the affected staff were in a pool for 13 redundancies.
It is one of about 30 engineering and science academies which are expected to open within the next two years, according to the University Technical Colleges body.
In common with many other public and private sector employers, the university and colleges are worried about the rising cost of funding their final salary pension schemes.
Mr Gove said he had given the go-ahead for 13 new university technical colleges (UTCs) in Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Burnley, Bedfordshire, Daventry, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield, Southwark, Wigan and Silverstone race track.
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Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, warned that the government's promotion of university technical colleges could push young people into "irrevocable" choices at the age of 14.
It went on: "If this extra income does not rise at least at the same rate as student and staff numbers then it will be difficult to maintain the premium services that the university and colleges provide (and which are essential to preserve the character of Cambridge)".
Bruni-Sarkozy spent the rest of the day touring The Julliard School and New York University, both colleges selected for the exchange program slated to beginning this summer.
Last year, Ray Cross, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, told Inside Higher Ed that he expects some students will simply take a free MOOC (massive online open course) offered by another school and then opt to write their competency exam based on the what they learned therein or knowledge they acquired independently.
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This Alliance has resulted in development of partnerships with the University of California at Berkeley and Davis, the California State University System, the regional California Community Colleges, and Midwest universities such as University of Oklahoma.
You can visit many of the University's 31 colleges, but don't miss the extraordinary King's College Chapel.
"We will therefore remove the barriers to more provision from the Open University, further education colleges and private providers, " he told MPs.
And today, we're calling on all colleges -- all 6, 000 colleges, university presidents -- from across the country to make the same commitment as those 10 leaders did today to provide this easy to understand financial data about their higher education investment.
Colleges like the University of Texas at Austin aim to give students an edge on start-up success.
Outside Branford College, one of the residential colleges at the university, a large snowman was crowned with a hat made from beer-bottle labels.
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The service will be held in Lynchburg, Virginia, where Falwell based his religious empire and founded one of the nation's largest Evangelical colleges, Liberty University.
Relay launched in 2009 with the help of legwork from interns from local colleges like the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, and then expanded to Richmond.
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Tens of thousands of our higher education students aren't at university at all - they're studying university-standard courses at local colleges.
It has joined with four colleges, including the University of North Carolina and the University of Southern California, to deliver master's degree programs online.
It is not, however, the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix that have worried us for years, nibbling around the edges at our enrollments and threatening our monopoly.
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He says that his company invites students every year from colleges like Georgia Tech, University of Southern California and Carnegie Mellon to intern at his shop.
EdX, originally backed by a grant from Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has joined with community colleges in Massachusetts and McGill University in Montreal.
The Kiss nightclub is popular with young people in Santa Maria, which is home to a number of universities and colleges, including the Federal University of Santa Maria.
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Here at the University of New Orleans and at other colleges and universities in this city, this year's graduating class will be the first class that chose to apply to a New Orleans school after Katrina. (Applause.) Think about that.
While Pittsburgh produces plenty of skilled graduates--some of whom have traveled from as far as India and China to attend the city's world-class colleges, including Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh--the job market, which today primarily consists of health care and technology positions, simply isn't big enough to provide work for all qualified candidates.
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