Student leaders claim a proposed increase in the St Andrews student population to offset budget cuts would kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
St Andrews University plans “a moderate, controlled growth” in student numbers to offset the loss of £2 million a year in government funding.
The Scottish Government is to cut the country’s higher education budget by £21.5m from August.
According to minutes of a meeting of the University Court a carefully controlled increase over the next decade would help to pay for the development of new academic initiatives.
St Andrews University Students Association president Pat Mathewson said: “We need to really hammer home that if you harm the student experience you are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg for this university and the arguments for financial insolvency are moot.”
