Charging high fees for university in the UK (though not as high as in the US) has an effect, aside from leaving graduates in debt: they are more focused on money.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that the main purpose of education was to enable people to think better about issues of concern to society. This purpose is being jettisoned eagerly under the corporate pressure to convert universities into support for business, and the refusal of the elite to pay taxes for the education of other people's children.