This could provide an efficient and effective way to bring together different educational providers with key businesses (public and private) to provide meaningful learning pathways and sustainable employment. This would help inform education provision at all levels. The most effective region-wide graduate labour market systems are based on the collection of comprehensive labour market intelligence, on-line publication of the data in a single place to improve students’ ability to make rational choices about their studies and to help graduates and employers to come together and students to move into employment, and using the data strategically to identify regional priorities and at an institutional level, to respond to the data in terms of course provision and the provision of employer specified skills.