Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is slated to become one of the first schools in The United States to offer an online master's degree in electrical and computer engineering.

As school shootings continue to make headlines, public school systems are investing in security systems to make students safer in the Bay State and beyond. One Framingham company is beginning to make inroads with a new mobile app that gives school officials fast access to public safety, with the click of a cell phone button. Rave Mobile Safety launched its Rave Panic Button mobile software on June 16 - incidentally, about a week after the nation's latest school shooting in Troutdale, Ore.

The UMass Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved its second consecutive tuition and fee freeze for in-state undergraduate students.

President Obama held Worcester Technical High School up as an example of the success that can come from partnerships between the private sector and public schools Wednesday afternoon at Worcester Tech's 2014 commencement.

Assumption College finds itself in a challenging position. As a small, Catholic, liberal arts school, it's fighting...

Adjunct professors at three Boston-area schools recently unionized, joining a national movement that started in 2012. Are Central Mass. adjuncts next?

College students in the Worcester area would apparently like to see the types of businesses in the downtown area that city officials hope will mark much of the landscape in a few years.

Boston-based renewable energy company First Wind said Wednesday that a solar project in Millbury, which will provide power to University of Massachusetts campuses in Worcester and Lowell, is complete and commercial operations have begun.

There have been many leadership changes at Central Massachusetts colleges and universities over the last few years,...

The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) lacked the necessary documentation to justify more than $2 million in bonuses to senior executives, according to a state report issued Thursday.