Aristophanes wrote:
Answer: free access to expensive text books and the bell to go home.
Text books over here are an absolute rort, I have a book on telecommunications networks which was required reading for a university subject. It cost AU $150. I later discovered, the exact same book, same publisher, sells in the United States for $US 60. The Australian dollar at the time was close to $0.90US.
The latest trend in education is a push toward privately administered standardized testing, which appears designed to sell overpriced texts and study guides to anxious schools and parents. Glad I was out of there well before that trend started.
Most scholarships won't even cover the costs of the textbooks. The other sucky part is when the book is not in stock at the book store and you wait like two weeks to get the book and you can't complete assignments without it.