The Future of Higher Education summit live blog: 20 March 2012

Leading figures join us to explore the future of higher education

Welcome to our live blog coverage from The Future of Higher Education, the Guardian’s 2012 higher education summit. Throughout the day, we’ll update this page with highlights, choice quotes, key advice and big themes from the event, as well as some interviews, tweets and views from attendees.

We’re expecting there will be rather a lot to talk about. We’ll be kicking off with the importance of maintaining competitive advantage internationally. Here our panel – including the International Association of Universities’ Eva Egron-Polak and Professor Michael Farthing, chairman and vice-chancellor, 1994 Group and University of Sussex – will consider the changes to immigration policy and its impact on the flow of staff and students, partnerships and the image of UK HE abroad.

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