Education

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.

The College of the Holy Cross will build a new $22 million facility on a 52-acre site in West Boylston that will boost its retreat programs, the Worcester school announced.

A proposed merger between Salem State University and Montserrat College of Art shows a "willingness to think...

Worcester State University will allow Springfield Technical Community College to complete their bachelor's degree in four years for $30,000 or less, under an agreement between the two schools.

Public state universities face a nearly $9 million collective bargaining obligation that could drive fees up or...

Massachusetts is one of three states that provide college graduates with the highest likelihood of landing jobs, according to a report out of Georgetown University.

Becker College's new data science degree program hired Feyzi R. Bagirov of Boston, naming him founding director of the program, the college said Thursday in a statement.

For colleges in Central Massachusetts and around the country, the 2013-2014 academic year put the recession in the rear-view mirror.

A group of Massachusetts teachers told the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Tuesday that the Assessment...

Education reformer and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Gabrieli has been tapped by Gov. Charlie Baker to chair the Board of Higher Education replacing Charles Desmond. Baker on Tuesday afternoon also announced that Sheila Harrity, superintendent of Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School District and a former Principal at Worcester Technical High School, would take a seat on the board replacing Keith Peden.