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TURNER Prize winner and pottery artist Grayson Perry was appointed chancellor of a London university yesterday as education campaigners attacked his support for high fees.
Mr Perry will take up the position as part of the University of the Arts London (UAL) management team on August 1 after having been a governor for the last five years.
But students from the famed institution were not happy, accusing Mr Perry of voting in favour of tuition fee increases.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
Almost half of universities face deficits, merger mania is taking hold, and massive fee hikes that will lock out working-class students are on the horizon, write RUBEN BRETT, PAUL WHITEHOUSE and DAN GRACE