Quinsigamond Community College

Worcester home health care provider Century Homecare has partnered with Quinsigamond Community College to train 20 of its home health aides as nurses and eventually, RNs.

Communities are strongest when they have talented, passionate and college-educated professionals filling some of society's most important roles: firefighters, police officers and social workers.

It has just become more affordable for those seeking a career in service-oriented fields such as firefighting or social work to get a bachelor's degree as Anna Maria College and Quinsigamond Community College announced a $40,000 transfer initiative on Tuesday morning.

Susan Mailman is the fourth-generation owner of the 130-year-old Coghlin Electrical Contractors & Coghlin Network Services, but she has not only stepped into a role guiding her company, but also in helping to guide major institutions in the city.

Scott Cook has been promoted to vice president of Quality and Compliance at Worcester-based Cogmedix, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coghlin Companies, the company announced Tuesday.

In one fell swoop, a 168-room hotel has done something that years of development efforts have been striving for: align Worcester's downtown with the words luxury, premiere and high-end.

Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) will be a partner in a $600 million national effort to boost training in photonics, a discipline that studies and uses light for electronics and other applications.

A Boston technical school will continue to accept Quinsigamond Community College's automotive technology students and bring with them the credits they earn at QCC, the Worcester school announced last week.

Two Worcester colleges are collaborating on a program that would allow students who achieve registered-nurse certification to go on to earn a bachelor of science in nursing.

Four public institutions of higher education in Central Massachusetts are collaborating to guarantee qualifying students four years of post-secondary schooling for $30,000.