Director/PDMR Shareholding

Pearson PLC
12 April 2006


Pearson plc - Notification of Directors' Interests

Pearson operates the Annual Bonus Share Matching Plan (the "Plan") whereby
executive directors and certain senior executives are able to elect to invest
their annual bonus in ordinary shares of the Company ("Shares"). The participant
is then entitled to receive, after tax thereon, one additional Share free of
charge for every Share left in trust for five years (or half that number of
additional Shares after three years). Entitlement to the additional Shares is
dependent on Pearson satisfying a corporate performance target and will normally
be lost if the participant leaves Pearson's employment.

The director named below has informed the Company on 12 April 2006 that they
have purchased Shares in order to participate in the Plan in respect of their
annual bonus for 2005.

Director      Shares      Purchase       Resultant         Percentage
              Purchased   Price          Holding           Holding

R A Fairhead   9,661      £7.762388       52,870           0.00657%



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