STIRLING University students united today to demand a proposed 9 per cent rent hike in student housing is dropped.

Students picketed the offices Sir Gerry McCormac , the university’s £300,000-a-year vice-chancellor, after the institution unveiled plans to increase rents on campus, in accommodation that many speakers branded “shocking” and “inadequate.”

The campus had been the site of unrest in 2020 when students were suspended and in some cases expelled from student accommodation after occupying buildings in solidarity with staff at the university who had taken action as part of the University and College Union (UCU).