In Australia, regional and remote Indigenous students are under‐represented in both higher education and vocational education and training. Access (or enabling) education programs are important in lifting participation rates and potentially in encouraging mobility between the sectors. However, there is a clear lack of evidence underpinning their development.

Utilising an internationally validated framework, the Regional Universities Network (RUN) undertook a study to assess and report on the member universities’ social, cultural, environmental and economic contributions to their regions and the nation. The study found substantive evidence of the positive performance of the universities, with respect to the social, cultural, environmental and economic drivers...

This report looks at the future development in Ballarat, Victoria. New forms of urban planning, housing and also transport and use of natural resouces are some of the major topics covered.