Director/PDMR Shareholding

Pearson PLC
08 March 2006


8 March 2006

Pearson plc - Notification of Directors' Interests

On 7 March 2006, Mourant & Co Limited, as trustees of the Pearson plc Employee
Share Ownership Trust (a discretionary trust under which all employees of the
Pearson group are potential beneficiaries) purchased 900,000 shares at
739.9905p.

All of the executive directors, being Marjorie Scardino, Rona Fairhead, John
Makinson and David Bell, are deemed for the purposes of the Companies Act to be
interested in all of these shares.

Following this purchase, the Pearson plc Employee Share Ownership Trust holds a
total of 1,742,683 shares representing 0.2167 % of the issued share capital of
the company.



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