Education

If there's one industry that benefited from the Great Recession, it's higher education. Faced with tougher competition for jobs, more people enrolled in colleges and universities to finish or obtain more advanced degrees to stand out from the crowd.

Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday resumed his effort to publicize public investments in the wake of this year's tax hikes. In Worcester, Patrick was scheduled to announce $15.9 million in funding for a new building at Quinsigamond Community College and $14 million toward a new maintenance facility for the Worcester Regional Transit Authority.

James P. “Trey” Cassidy III, an administrator at a 600-student school in Michigan, will take over the top job at Bancroft School in Worcester next summer, the school announced today.

Earlier this month, Framingham State University (FSU) announced it will launch its Entrepreneur Innovation Center, creating workspace for area entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of business. According to Robert Krim, an economics professor hired by FSU to oversee the center, it's essentially an incubator, making it the second to open in MetroWest this year.

As student loan debt in the United States approaches the $1-trillion mark and has become the largest form of unsecured debt in the nation, federal and state lawmakers are looking for ways to ease the burden on students and turning to performance-based funding for schools as a possible cure.

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MCPHS University will dedicate its new $5.3 million sonography lab in Worcester today, the school said.

A new Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) team will call Worcester home, making it the 10th franchise for the league in New England. The team, which has yet to be named, will fill the baseball void created when the minor-league Worcester Tornadoes folded due to financial troubles last summer.

A Newton-based company announced Tuesday that it's been awarded a $1.2 million contract to install an air-quality monitoring system in University of Massachusetts Medical School laboratories.

Assumption College's surplus fell by $2.1 million in fiscal 2013, while freshman enrollment slipped nearly 10 percent, according to figures released by the college.