Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’ Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’ A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities. Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-