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Research into Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector is commissioned and undertaken by a variety of government agencies and nongovernment organisations, industry and provider bodies, academic researchers, private consultants and VET practitioners. To give greater coordination to this research effort, national research priorities for the VET sector are determined from time to time. These priorities are determined by the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education (MCVTE), on advice from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Board. The priorities are used to guide research commissioned under the National VET Research and Evaluation Program (NVETRE), managed by NCVER on behalf of the Australian and state governments, to inform developments in Australian VET statistical collections and to serve as a guide to NCVER's own research activities. Other agencies and organisations may also elect to frame their research activities within the national priorities. NCVER embarked on a process for consulting with stakeholders in the VET sector in the first quarter of 2007 on what should form the sector's next set of research priorities. This document sets out the policy context in which those consultations took place before describing what was learnt from the consultations and the decision arrived at by Ministers. It then outlines the next steps that NCVER will be following to give effect to the Ministerial direction.