Exeter University appoint Floella Benjamin as their new Chancellor

Floella runs a successful TV production company and is an active
Vice-President of Barnardos. She led a twenty-year campaign to create the
role of Children's Minister, which achieved its goal in 2003. She was
Chairman of the Women of the Year Lunch for five years and Chairman of
BAFTA -Television. She is a member of the OFCOM Content Board, a Millennium
Commissioner and President of the ElizabethR Commonwealth Broadcasting
Fund. Her broadcasting work has been recognised with a Special Lifetime
Achievement BAFTA and an OBE. She has recently created the Touching Success
initiative that aims to mentor and help young people from disadvantaged
backgrounds. She is an honorary graduate of the University of Exeter,
having received an Hon D.Litt last summer. She is, of course' best known
for her days as a children's TV presenter.