Perhaps if education was free there would be less incentive to cheat for good grades and more to learn?
No need to look at Europe for free college/university education, Mexico has it with its UNAM* network. Mexico is not a perfect country, far from it, but it does understand that education is primordial in society.
*Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
If not free, at least the focus should be more on public institutions than private ones.
Of course, that's a choice that society needs to make: do you want to have a couple of multibillionaires while other people can't properly buy food for their kids OR do you want a more balanced society where everyone pays for but also can benefit from services regardless of their economic status?