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I think there's a difference between 'Education beyond the legally required minimum is suspicious, and elite universities are automatically anti-working class, and subjects that are primarily academic or arts rather than vocational are on the wrong side of the class war' - which I don't have a sense of as a left-wing position, rather than an all more complicated situation.

The people I've observed cutting arts and social sciences etc don't seem to be doing this from the left! rather than a corporatist managerial very short-termist view of what will fit into the job-market and a very limited notion of the value of humanities degrees. (Speaking as a historian of medicine, ahem...)

There's the longstanding fear of being cut off from one's roots/one's roots expressing the fear that one will be cut off by seeking education. (Numerous memoirs, novels, etc.) Also feeling of not fitting with the other students: I came across this A Bullingdon in reverse: how working-class student club is taking on elitism recently.

Having really recently been doing an oral history life-interview, I particularly wonder if I would, these days, even dare go to uni and take on a load of debt, because I realised how much my life was influenced by having grants and not graduating with student loans to pay off. (Being of a working-class family.)