Student diversity is valued because our different backgrounds, interests, knowledge and language offer many opportunities from which to learn and help each other.

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The study found the biggest decline in language provision had been at the newer universities and that language study was becoming increasingly concentrated in the older universities and among students from more affluent backgrounds.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Big fall in university languages

You know how people who come from completely different cultures and backgrounds, people who might not even speak a single word of the same language, they might still be drawn together when their hearts are lifted by the notes of a song, or a vision on a canvas, or the graceful arc of a dance.

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