Our culture

Our products, customers and technologies are changing fast but some things in Pearson stay the same. In everything we do, we aspire to be brave, imaginative and decent.

So it was Penguin, for example, that published Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Lolita, despite the serious legal and public consequences. And it was the Financial Times that set out its stall as long ago as 1888, declaring itself: "The friend of the honest financier, the bona fide investor, the respectable broker, the genuine director, the legitimate speculator. The enemy of the closed stock exchange, the unprincipled promoter, the company wrecker, the guinea pig, the bull, the bear, the gambling operator."

We are committed to supplying the highest possible quality of product and service to our customers, which means delivering measurable impacts in our educational services as well as finding the most environmentally-friendly way we can of making our books, newspapers and magazines.

Our core values strongly influence the way we see our company’s place in the world too – we believe it to be our duty to use our resources to help further education and literacy, and to support our people wherever we can in their own charitable endeavours. Our charitable arm, the Pearson Foundation, partners with other innovative organizations to promote literacy, learning and great teaching on an international scale, and we run a number of volunteer schemes to help staff donate some of their working day to local programmes.

Learn more about our environmental and community initiatives in the Responsibility section of our website here.