Education

Mount Wachusett Community College is adding a mathematics associate degree for the first time this fall.

Atlantic Union College, with no future uses in sight for the 135-acre property in Lancaster, has begun selling off properties, beginning with a $610,000 sale of a two-acre parcel. 

A new interactive tool allows users to compare spending and demographic information for schools across Massachusetts, data points that the business group behind the resource hopes will help inform the development of a school funding reform bill.

Even as standardized tests try to regain some of their lost luster, nearly all Central Massachusetts colleges have found more holistic ways to assess applicants’ potential and aren’t looking back.

Mount Ida College in Newton was not the first college to close in Massachusetts, but the suddenness of its demise and the way the closure left students in the lurch last year have had an oversized effect on the debate about financial transparency in higher education.

Check out the 17 movers and shakers landing new jobs in Central Mass.

April's unemployment rate was down from 3.0% in March to 2.9% in April, which is the lowest rate since December 2000, according to state officials.

Four Worcester business and higher education leaders have been named to a new Massachusetts Economic Development Planning Council by Gov. Charlie Baker.

Make a real effort, treat interns like valued staff, and you get amazing results.

Funding cuts to prevention services are one cause for a rise in gonorrhea and other STI's. That's brought a stronger response from health officials in Central Massachusetts.