The UK had no tuition fees when I went to university in 1983. They even gave you a couple of grand for living costs if you were hard up. The trouble was that university education was only available for about 15% of the population, basically sorted by exam results so if you didn&#x27;t make that you were kind of screwed. Now it&#x27;s like 47% go to university. Neither system was&#x2F;is perfect.