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The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the stakeholder, scholarly, academic and jurisdictional influences on course development for a vocationally oriented bachelor’s degree.

This paper takes the form of a case study.

Vocationally oriented bachelor’s courses can be developed, especially when the developers focus on scholarly rigour while paying due heed to jurisdictional requirements as well as the needs of key stakeholders.

This case study is limited to a specialist vocational college in Australia.

The paper provides a framework by which others can develop vocationally oriented bachelor’s degrees.

The study can provide impetus to the development of scholarly, and academically rigorous, yet industrially relevant vocational degrees.

This is a relatively novel paper from a non-self accrediting higher education provider.

Three basic approaches to retail institutional change can be discerned in the last 30 years. The first contends that institutional evolution is a function of developments in the socio‐economic environment. The second argues that change occurs in a cyclical fashion. The third considers inter‐institutional conflict to be the mainspring of retail change. None of those approaches is found to be entirely satisfactory, and a series of combination theories has been posited. It is argued that regional institutional change is the result of environmental forces and a cycle‐like sequence of inter‐institutional conflict.