Holding in Company

Pearson PLC
27 September 2001



27 September 2001


Company Announcements Office
The London Stock Exchange
Old Broad Street
London
EC2N 1HP



Dear Sirs

Notification of change in interest in shares

We write in accordance with rule 9.12, under the continuing obligations
section of the Listing Rules, to notify you that we have today received
information that, pursuant to section 198 of the Companies Act 1985, the
shareholding of CGNU plc which equals 23,783,510 shares, now represents 2.97%
of the issued ordinary share capital of Pearson plc.

The registered holders of the shares are:


         BNY Norwich Union Nominees Limited    9,142,096
         BT Globenet Nominees Ltd                  5,548
         Chase CA Group Nominees Ltd           8,965,402
         Chase Nominees Ltd                        5,412
         CUIM Nominee Ltd                      5,157,443
         RBSTB Nominees Ltd                      353,596
         Hibernian Investment Managers Ltd       154,013

                                              23,783,510

Yours faithfully


S Jones
Assistant Company Secretary