Hardly news that the cost of college is skyrocketing here’s how much. According to inflation data dot com the price of just about everything you buy the overall inflation rate between 1985 and 2010 was 107%. But the increase in the price of tuition and other associated costs over that same 25 year period was […]

Most of us are aware of Ray Lewis’ warning last month that if the lockout looms, and there is no football, crime rate will increase.

Is college an invaluable waste of time? You bet. But it’s about to get even more valuable.

Boston’€™s young generation of sports fans -€” already relishing seven championship wins in their short lives – have been spared the heartache and misery the Hub teams gave their parents growing up.

Massachusetts continued its uneven economic recovery last month as employers cut payrolls last month and thousands of residents stopped looking for work — a sign that jobs are still hard to get.

On the night of Jan. 28, as Cairo’s police forces retreated from the waves of angry protesters advancing on Tahrir Square through thick clouds of white tear gas, just one block away, thieves broke into the world-famous, and once-highly secure, Egyptian Museum.

Business schools are making it a priority to combat plagiarism in admissions essays, following an incident last year when a Penn State admissions officer discovered dozens of MBA applicants who copied verbatim from an online essay. Next Wednesday, admissions officers will be gathering in Boston to speak about plagiarism and integrity in application essays at […]

Too old for traditional summer camp but too young to hold jobs, middle school students are at an impressionable stage — and they have time on their hands, said David Roach, cochairman of the governor’€™s Commonwealth Corps Commission.

Boston capital investment firm Allied Minds Inc. has led a $3 million funding of CryoXtract Instruments LLC, a Virginia laboratory automation company focused on biobanking and formed through a collaboration between Harvard University and Northeastern University.

Shares of J.C. Penney flew off the shelves Tuesday as investors applauded the company’s coup in luring away Apple’s retail head to be its new CEO.

As college-access advocates work to preserve federal student-aid funds in a difficult budget climate, it’s natural that most of their attention is focused on Pell Grants. After all, that program provides low-income students with grants that don’t have to be repaid. But Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University, is worried that the Perkins […]

Ten days after an Indiana University student vanished, police said Monday they plan to release enhanced security camera video in the hope the public can help identify the vehicles that drove through the area around the time the young woman was last seen.