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Together with schools and families, we’re working to enhance every learning journey.

We believe in helping every single learner to achieve their potential in their lives, regardless of their background, ability or learning style. ​

That’s why we offer more qualifications, learning routes, support and best-in-class resources for students and teachers than any other learning company.

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It's here!: The Pearson School Report 2024

We’ve just launched our highly anticipated 2024 Pearson School Report, which brings together over 12,000+ teacher, student and sector voices on education – the challenges, solutions in action, and opportunities for the future.

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Introducing ActiveHub

ActiveHub is the next step in digital teaching and learning, bringing together assessment, rich data insights and next generation independent intervention practice to give you the tools you need to help your students reach their full potential. Driven by insights, ActiveHub provides everything on one platform for a powerful online learning experience, anytime, anywhere.

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The Future of Design Education

Over the past few months, we have been working with educators and organisations to drive forward fundamental change to design education in schools.

Starting with an ambitous call to action for the future of design education, we have since collaborated with teachers, industry partners and organisations to evolve our thinking, and have recently shared our vision for a curriculum focused towards Responsible Design and Innovation.

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New BTECs for first teach September 2025

BTEC's are evolving

We are pleased to announce that funding has been approved for the New BTEC Level 3 qualifications that we submitted in July 2023 as part of the Post-16 Level 3 vocational qualification reform.

The 12 new qualifications are across Science, ICT and Computing, Construction, Early Years, Health and Social Care and Engineering and will be available for first teach in September 2025. If there is a pause to the reforms, the current BTEC Nationals will be available until 2026 to support any changes to funding decisions.

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What is NEW for BTEC? Webinar series, watch on-demand

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These events have been arranged to formally launch the NEW BTEC Level 3 Nationals and Technicals qualifications which have been approved for funding for first teach September 2025.

They will provide you with an opportunity to ask questions, hear from other centres and for us to give you an overview of the qualification, how transferable, digital and sustainability skills are built in, how they sit alongside A levels and much more.

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2024 Pearson Edexcel GCSE French, German and Spanish Qualifications

The new, 2024 Pearson Edexcel GCSE French, German and Spanish Qualifications are here! Our qualifications focus on building communication confidence and cultural understanding from a foundation of strong vocabulary knowledge to broaden students’ perspectives and opportunities.

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Multi-Academy Trusts

Supporting transformation and improvement across your trust 

Every trust has a unique set of needs. That’s why we’ll work with you to create the best package of teaching, learning and training solutions for your schools, teachers and learners.

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Leading the way in diversity

We’re proud to be leading the way in diversifying the English curriculum.

A truly diverse curriculum is about more than just the texts on a specification. Which is why, for the past three years, we’ve been working with schools, publishers, and academics to make a real difference.

Our work in classrooms and education communities across the country is underpinned by three core beliefs. These beliefs lay the foundations for not only what we have already done in supporting schools with successfully diversifying the curriculum, but what we’ll continue to do.

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Recent news and blog posts

  • A level Maths entries surge in 2024 to more than 100,000: a sign of changing attitudes and future opportunities?

    For the first time ever, more than 100,000 students are collecting A level Maths results in this summer’s exams.

    At Pearson, we’ve closely followed the rise in the popularity of maths over the last decade as the exam board that’s proud to support the largest number of schools and students with this subject.

    But what does such a significant 12.9% year-on-year rise in entries tell us?  

  • 6 steps to reducing your teachers' workload

    Ben Levinson, Headteacher at Kensington Primary School and winner of The Pearson National Teaching Awards Primary School of the Year 2020, shares his school’s approach to promote teacher agency and autonomy as part of a culture of trust to reduce workloads.

  • Making the connection between oracy and reading

    Many of the skills inherent to reading are developed through spoken language long before children learn to associate sound with print. Attending to children’s early spoken language development is a stepping stone towards building reading proficiency later on. 

     

Policy Watch

  • Highlights of the week ending 10 March

    It's been a busy week with the long awaited publication of the government's response on its Lifelong Loan Entitlement and the announcement of delays to three new T Levels (see top stories).

    This week also saw the Industry and Regulators Lords Committee held the first session of their inquiry into the work of the Office for Students (OfS). Peers heard from Dame Nicola Dandridge (former Chief Executive of the OfS), and Sir Michael Barber (its former Chair), about the establishment, role and remit of the OfS, and its relationships with government and HE institutions. Another further session is set for Tuesday 14 March, with ex-Ministers, Charles Clarke and Lord Johnson of Marylebone.

  • Highlights of the week ending 3 March

    This week saw the second reading of the Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill in the House of Commons. MPs from across the house pressed Government for further detail on the proposals, with Gillian Keegan and Robert Halfon assuring them that detail on the policy and the mechanism of the bill would be published before report stage. Representing Labour, Matt Western said the Opposition are prepared to support the Minister throughout the bill’s passage.

  • Highlights of the week ending 24 February

    This week saw the publication of various statistics, guidance, and reports, including ESFA guidance on Early Career Framework reforms. The Education and Skills Funding Agency published the latest guidance for schools and local authorities on funding to support the national roll-out of the early career framework (ECF) reforms.