university funding / how do your universities work

[Ben]

i was THINKING today about a common political promise- free college. i thought- a cool idea, but maybe there should be a requirement (scores or what-have-you) to make sure not just aaaanyone can take government money and going to college? or is that what a college application is for? but would colleges relax their requirements so that more people get in and fuel them, knowing it's government backed and they arent necessarily taking a risk? what interested me is my answer is usually, look to examples- and i heard that canada works this way (something like, < 125k income families can get it free) but i didnt know exactly how it worked

so tell me, canadians and yoo-rops in particular, how does your "university" work? you probably have both public and private universities- what proportions are they to the total population of universities? what do you know about your university system? what is your own specific university experience (if any)? was it "worth" it? would it have been worth it under some other conditions?


do you believe that a college education should be guaranteed by the government? what stipulations would you have in place? what do you think of a college education in general?