Director/PDMR Shareholding

Pearson PLC
03 April 2006



Non-Executive Directors' Share Purchase Plan


Below are details of purchases of ordinary shares and ADRs made on Friday, 31
March 2006 under the Non-Executive Directors' Share Purchase Plan:-

Name of     No. of      Percentage   Price    Total Holding   Total Percentage
Director    Shares      of Issued    per      Following       Following
            Purchased   Stock        Share    Notification    Notification 
                                     £
Lord          278       0.000035%    7.99           5,717            0.00071%
Burns
Reuben        362       0.000045%    7.99          16,908             0.0021%
Mark
Vernon        278       0.000035%    7.99           5,563            0.00069%
Sankey
Gurvirendra
Talwar       1,458      0.000181%    7.99          14,561            0.00181%


Name of    No. of ADRs Percentage of  Price    Total Holding    Total Percentage
Director   Purchased   Issued Stock   per ADR  Following        Following
                                      $        Notification     Notification

Susan        363       0.000045%     13.91         2,681            0.00033%
Fuhrman








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