Director/PDMR Shareholding

Pearson PLC
23 May 2007


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 directors named below have informed the Company on 22 May 2007 that they
have purchased Shares in order to participate in the Plan in respect of their
annual bonus for 2006.



Director     Shares         Purchase          Resultant         Percentage
             Purchased      Price             Holding            Holding


R A Freestone 2,777         £8.99               4,909            0.00061%

M M Scardino 35,569         £8.99             252,341            0.03127%



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