Pearson Education

Pearson is the world's leading education company. From pre-school to high school, early learning to professional certification, our curriculum materials, multimedia learning tools and testing programmes help to educate more than 100 million people worldwide - more than any other private enterprise.

Our businesses have a special, privileged role in society: we try to create the most effective educational services; the most reliable tests of educational achievement; the most independent and authoritative business news and analysis; the most entertaining and informative books. For this kind of company, 'social responsibility' is our core business.

We continue to work to connect our products and services to provide integrated learning platforms that make teaching more efficient and learning more personal. Our research – both in-house and independently conducted – provides evidence that our products are helping to enhance student learning; by bringing some of these together, we are able to offer students and educators highly effective tools to support education.

Compañías Grupo Pearson

Pearson VUE

Pearson VUE delivers millions of high-stakes tests a year across the globe for clients in the licensure, certification, academic admissions, regulatory, and government testing service markets. It boasts the world’s leading test center network, with over 5,000 test centers in 165 countries, 230 of which are fully-owned and -operated Pearson Professional Centers. Pearson Professional Centers utilize a patent-winning design, which was created specifically for high-stakes testing and offers a carefully controlled, consistent testing environment. Learn more about our test center networks.

Pearson VUE provides testing services for:

Information technology: Pearson VUE deliver exams globally for leaders in the certification testing industry such as Cisco®, CompTIA®, Citrix®, Novell® and many more.
Regulatory: Pearson VUE has been providing comprehensive testing and licensing services to state regulatory and certification bodies for insurance, real estate, nurse aide, cosmetology, mortgage lenders, contractors, and professional certification for over 25 years.
Health/Medicine certification boards: Pearson VUE is the sole provider of the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX®), nursing exams. Other clients are the American Board of Surgery, American Board of Family Medicine and the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.
Academic/Admissions: Pearson VUE signed a contract with the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®) to be the exclusive global exam delivery provider of the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®). In April 2006 sign a contract with Excelsior College to deliver examinations for credits.
Government Services: Pearson VUE was awarded the world’s largest computer-based testing contract for the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) of Great Britain and the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) of Northern Ireland and all DANTES recognized Service Education Centers become Pearson VUE Authorized Test Centers and deliver credentialing association’s certification exams.
Financial Services: FINRA (formerly NASD), a pioneer in electronic testing and the world’s leading private-sector provider of financial regulatory services, signed an exclusive agreement with Pearson VUE in 1999 to deliver all exams outside the United States and Canada. In 2003, another agreement was signed to provide computer-based delivery of securities and continuing education exams in the United States.

Financial Times

The FT Group provides business and financial news, data, comment and analysis, in print and online, to the international business community.

FT Publishing includes: the globally-focused Financial Times newspaper and FT.com website; a range of specialist financial magazines and online services; and Mergermarket, which provides proprietary forward-looking insights and intelligence to businesses and financial institutions.
A growing global audience: The aim of the FT is to deliver the most accurate, incisive and timely business journalism to an increasingly mobile audience of global business leaders, and to ensure that our advertisers communicate effectively with this elite group.
Confidence: Readers rely on the FT to present a holistic analysis of global business and financial news - our global editorial network ensures we're able to join the dots between the regions. The FT's value lies in its ability to make connections and make the information relevant, whether the reader is in Sydney or San Francisco. It is this ability to collate, analyse and comment on the issues which sets us apart.
Intelligence integrated into workflow: The Mergermarket Group is also a part of the FT Group. Through its products mergermarket, dealReporter, Debtwire, wealthmonitor, Pharmawire and Remark, Mergermarket provides the larger financial community with actionable intelligence and data. Mergermarket's clients are the world's leading investment banks, law firms, private equity firms, corporations, and hedge funds.

The environment and are covered by our environmental policy.

Anti-corruption and our Code of Conduct describes the standards that we set ourselves in that area.

Labour standards and human rights.

Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.

The elimination of all forms of compulsory labour.

The abolition of child labour.

The elimination of discrimination in employment and occupation.

The Penguin Group

Penguin, founded by Allen Lane in 1935, is today one of the world’s leading English language publishers and the most famous brand in the industry. Penguin publishes 4,000 titles every year for readers of all ages. Its extensive range of titles includes top literary prize winners, classics, reference volumes and children’s titles.

The iconic Penguin brand is well known all over the world but we also publish under many other imprints, including Hamish Hamilton, Putnam, Berkley, Viking, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin and Ladybird.Today, Penguin has offices in 15 countries, from Penguin US (formed in 1939), to Penguin Ireland (formed in 2003), and keeps over 4,000 different titles in print.

In 2008, Penguin was named Publisher of the Year in Canada and Australia and Trade Publisher of the Year in South Africa and also won the major English language prizes in India's national book awards.

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We believe we have a deep responsibility to play a part in helping to improve life opportunities for students wherever our educational services are being used. Our continued investment – both in bolt-on acquisitions (Maskew Miller Longman, Longman Nigeria and Fronter in 2008 and Wall Street English in 2009) and in content, services and technologies (we invested over $800m in product development in 2009) – puts Pearson in a strong position to fulfil that responsibility.

Our education business has expanded over the last few years, consolidating our strong roots in China, India, Brazil and across southern Africa, while extending our leading position in our largest market, North America.

Sustainable business practice

During 2000, Pearson, along with other companies, signed a 'global compact' at the United Nations which sets out a series of principles on labour standards, human rights and the environment. Since 2001 we have put in place our commitments and ways to monitor our performance against these principles, and report annually on our progress Some of the Global Compact principles concern:

Product Quaility impact

We aim to be brave, decent and imaginative in everything we do and have a longstanding commitment to high standards of product quality. We want the people who buy our books, newspapers and services to have multiple ways to access to the best education and information we can provide, and we work hard to achieve that aim. We want each ingredient used in each stage of our products and services to be in the best possible shape in can be - and that means employing the best, most creative minds as well as using the most responsibly sourced supplies available.