Education

When Central Massachusetts companies look to fill software, programming or research jobs, they’re increasingly looking to foreign labor under an immigrant work program called H-1B.

Researchers at WPI received a $746,000 grant to develop a website for children to design and play math games to develop computational thinking skills.

Fidelity Bank is donating its former headquarters in downtown Fitchburg to Fitchburg State University.

As the population in and around Worcester has diversified in recent years, with more newcomers not so fluent in English, the medical community has taken what was once almost an afterthought – interpreter assistance – and made it an essential service.

The number of foreign students enrolled at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Clark University and UMass Medical School fell slightly last year, as the number of such students nationally flattened, according to a new report.

MCPHS University doesn't have the prestige or name recognition of schools like Stanford, MIT and Harvard University, but a new study gives it bragging rights over those and other schools in an important area: better long-term payoff for graduates.

Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers and a team they lead have discovered what the school says are serious security vulnerabilities in computer chips affecting laptop, desktop and other users around the world.

Assumption College in Worcester has received the final state approval necessary to become a university, with plans for the transition to being Assumption University to take place next August.

A robotics scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will lead a team of researchers in a project to help recycling centers better sort materials.

Beacon Hill leaders reiterated a single statistic several times over the course of debate on a bill requiring greater financial transparency from the higher education world: over the past five years, 18 private colleges and universities in Massachusetts have closed or merged.