[ollifi]

> Should people be able to live at university forever, with a living wage from the public purse? What if they were enrolled but didn't ever attend?

One way to sort it is the finnish system where you have certain amount of months you can get paid for. Your courses are tracked and if you are enrolled but are not advancing fast enough you need to payback your benefits. If you advance to further studies you can get more months, but eventually you run out of them.

There is only so many places available to study and you need to take test to get into most places.

It's not without its problems and it certainly is not 'free'.