Director Shareholding

Pearson PLC
18 April 2005



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 in 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 15 April 2005 that they
have purchased Shares in order to participate in the Plan in respect of their
annual bonus for 2004. The purchase price for these Shares was 633.0p per share.

Director         Shares         Resultant         Percentage
                 Purchased      Holding           Holding

R A Fairhead     11,848         27,508             0.00342%





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