Pearson
Pearson is the world’s biggest educational company.
It is also the world's leading book publisher.
Headquartered in London, it has 40,000 employees in 80 countries, although Pearson generates approximately 60% of its sales in North America. In 2014, it had revenues of $8.2 billion.
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Pearson education business
Pearson provides a range of education products and services to institutions - schools, colleges and universities – and direct to individual learners, the 'retail' side of the business. It also has a 'wholesale' business selling education products and services to government, such as testing services and examinations, and the management of education data.
It is organised into three main business groupings: Pearson School, Pearson Higher Education and Pearson Professional.
Pearson in schools
Pearson's publishes textbooks and digital technologies for teachers and students across school ages. Its brands include: Heinemann, Longman, BBC Active and Bug Club.
It also provides exams and tests, as well as practice assessments and online tutoring services aligned to tests. For example, Pearson owns Edexcel, the UK's largest and only for-profit awarding body. In the US, it produces standardised tests aligned with common core academic standards.
It also provides assessments for teacher certification and teacher training around the world, as well as whole 'school Improvement services'.
Digitising learning
Pearson claims to have invested over $9bn in the digitisation and what it calls ‘creative destruction’ of education.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
Former lobbying firms
- Weber Shandwick, until May 2014[1]
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Notes
- ↑ Register for 1st March 2014 - 31st May 2014, APPC, accessed 29 January 2015
