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22 August 2008
The Register of Consultants is now ready for submissions. To make this a useful resource, we need research consultants to submit their details (login required). You could be a research company, academic department or an individual consultant. As long as you provide research services that can benefit others in the West Midlands, you are welcome to join the Register.

21 August 2008
New report and GIS data published from Halcrow's study of wind resources for the West Midlands.

18 August 2008
Places are available to book now at our Annual Conference in Coventry, 13 October 2008. Headline speaker Regional Minister Liam Byrne MP will be launching the State of the Region synthesis report. Exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities are now available.

15 August 2008
Our Oracle Summer 2008 newsletter (PDF, 1.2MB) is now available featuring updates on new research activity in the West Midlands and at the Observatory.

8 July 2008>
A new edition of the Environment Bulletin is out today. The Bulletin includes articles on Natural England's State of the Natural Environment report, sustainable drainage research at Coventry University and Severn Trent's draft Water Resources Management Plan.

19 June 2008
E-business Support Directory launched to help small businesses identify sources of advice and assistance with the adoption of e-business technologies to help their business.

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09 September 2008
Local Wellbeing Conference

16 September 2008
New and emerging challenges of Population Change

25 September 2008
Information Security: Bridging the Gap Between Data Sharing and Data Protection

08 October 2008
Introduction to Islam & the Muslim Culture Course

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We are responsible for helping the region to develop better access to well organised information. We do this to improve the quality of strategy and policy making so that the region can better inform the provision of services.

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Skills performance indicator framework for the West Midlands

The indicators have been updated to reflect the 2007 review of performance.

Graduate Retention, Attraction and Employment Study 2008

Key findings (PDF, 324 KB) are available from our recent research into graduates and employers in the West Midlands.

Economic Impact of Migrant Workers

Full report, desk study and datasets are available from a new research project exploring the economic impact of migrant workers in the West Midlands.