Education

Margaret Wickens Pearce, an alumna of Clark University in Worcester, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, earning herself the title of a genius grant recipient. The prestigious MacArthur Fellows […]

Despite major public investments in recent years, the report by the MassINC Policy Center and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau found that students in Boston and "gateway cities" are more likely than their suburban counterparts to "learn in buildings that are deteriorating, lacking in basic features, and often cramped and overcrowded."

Following an 18-year tenure with Worcester’s UMass Chan Medical School, John Hayes has left his position as vice chancellor for advancement to move on to a similar position at the city’s College of the Holy Cross.

The College of the Holy Cross is now offering its students accelerated master of music degrees as the Worcester school has partnered with the Boston-based New England Conservatory to launch a five-year expedited track.

For those who are able to grab a seat at the voc-tech table, the schools learned can provide lifetime value, even if students don’t end up spending the rest of their working lives in the field they studied,

Notre Dame Academy in Worcester has named Linda Anderson, the former principal of St. Bernard’s High School in Fitchburg, as its next head of school.

Massachusetts AFL-CIO, the Climate Jobs Massachusetts Action coalition and a handful of individual locals were among those who voiced support for a bill (H 3476 / S 2275) that would require energy and air quality audits for public schools, universities and colleges.

Quinsigamond Community College’s fall 2025 enrollment has grown approximately 15% since last year, reaching the Worcester school’s highest headcount in 13 years. 

The expansion project will see the vacant school building converted into a childcare center, which will add 20 new preschool seats and 65 additional school-age care slots.

Framingham State University’s STEM, students, faculty, and academic programs just received a major boost in funding as a former university professor and his wife have pledged more than $2 million to the Central Massachusetts school.