What is this FA? The "problems" of free (publicly funded) higher education have been solved for decades, if not centuries, in many (most?) countries. "Equality

What is this FA? The "problems" of free (publicly funded) higher education have been solved for decades, if not centuries, in many (most?) countries. "Equality of opportunity" becomes even worse a bad joke when a prerequisite for higher education is to be born to well-off parents.