It's because 70 years of unrelenting socialism in this country has convinced hoi polloi that they deserve free shít, all paid for by someone else.
Personally I see no reason for anyone to go to university and would close the things down in the blink of an eye. There should be polytechnics to train doctors, lawyers, plumbers and electricians. Buildings filled with permanently infantalised longn haired layabouts 'learning' things like history (read a fúcking book!), English, (read a ucking book!) or, God help us, foreign languages (get a set of Michel Thomas CDs you lazy ****) are an insult to every decent human being who leaves school at 18 and goes to work, to earn money for his family and to pay taxes to help the mongs.