Two directors have been elected to the Board of the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust by members of the Trust.

"We are pleased to welcome James Hunter back to the Board and Dr Megan Balks from Waikato as a new director," said Sir Brian Lochore, Chairperson of QEII Trust.

Outstanding Cambridge High School Year 13 student, Jake Martin, has won this year's UNESCO Senior Student Award in the national science and research, Realise the Dream competition.

National student leaders will be helping students save their services as they visit campuses around the country this month.

Five budding tourism leaders have been given a helping hand as recipients of the government's annual $75,000 Tourism Research Scholarships, including one Victoria University of Wellington student, Associate Tourism Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman announced today.

Massey University has announced the appointment of Cas Carter as the new Assistant Vice-Chancellor (External Relations).

What the Maori Battalion achieved in battle, their mokopuna are emulating in classrooms, laboratories and lecture halls and marae all over New Zealand, according to Associate Education Minister Dr Pita Sharples.

By Kent Atkinson of NZPA

Wellington, Feb 25 NZPA - Changes proposed to a key diagnostic handbook mean New Zealanders with relatively mild disorders currently classified as asperger's syndrome will in future be defined as part of a wider grouping of autistic conditions.

By Kent Atkinson of NZPA

Wellington, Feb 23 NZPA - A proposed new edition of the handbook which helps American psychiatrists decide someone is mentally ill has potential implications for New Zealand, where many mental health experts use the manual as a reference.

Our own bodies, where we live and how we live can all influence our sexuality. Two Waikato University geographers have written a book called Space, Place and Sex that examines the role of place in shaping sexual identity.

Incidents such as the recent murder in Hamilton by a patient under psychiatric care inevitably prompt calls for people with major mental health issues to be locked up for good, but Waikato University historian Dr Catharine Coleborne says that's not always the right or most practical solution.