Education

An $84,100 state grant will enable non-English speaking students at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester to learn the language more quickly and begin taking college-level English courses.

Six inmates at the West Boylston House of Corrections graduated last week from a plastics manufacturing class run by Mount Wachusett Community College.

Attorney General Maura Healey joined a cadre of other state attorneys general who plan to file suit...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute President Laurie Leshin made $764,400 in 2015, though her pay was eclipsed by the heads of UMass Medical School and MCPHS.

Lampin Corp., Provo Wealth Management and Worcester Art Museum are among the companies with recent hires and promotions.

Financial literacy should be taught in school, but is rarely spoken about in the home. As a result, most people get their education in bits and pieces.

If attracting students is an arms race for colleges, not every campus can build the most elaborate recreation center, but even much smaller schools can give their students food that alumni would hardly recognize.

Thanks to a $62,000 grant, the Worcester Community Action Council hopes to develop a program to address poverty from a community health concern, the council announced Wednesday.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has awarded more than $1.4 million to 137 local nonprofit organizations, the foundation announced this week.

Uxbridge's employee-owned Lampin Corp. in November named employee Robin Leclaire as the company's new president, succeeding Bill DiBenedetto, who retired in April.