Top tips for supporting struggling readers
Hear from leading voices from across the sector about how to support KS3, EAL and SEND learners to make progress with reading.
Coming early 2025: New DE&I report
Back in 2020, we published the Diversity and Inclusion in Schools report, one of our most impactful and widely viewed resources.
Now, as we approach the five-year milestone, we’re excited to launch the next report in the series.
The Pearson National Teaching Awards
It's our time to celebrate the incredible impact educators make every day. Enter an inspiring colleague or team for the 2025 Pearson National Teaching Awards today!
Tune into BBC One’s The One Show from 25 - 29 November and see firsthand the impact winning an award could have on your community as the 2024 Gold Winners are revealed.
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Introducing ActiveHub
ActiveHub is the next step in digital teaching and learning, bringing together assessment, rich data insights and next generation independent intervention practice to give you the tools you need to help your students reach their full potential. Driven by insights, ActiveHub provides everything on one platform for a powerful online learning experience, anytime, anywhere.
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It's here!: The Pearson School Report 2024
We’ve just launched our highly anticipated 2024 Pearson School Report, which brings together over 12,000+ teacher, student and sector voices on education – the challenges, solutions in action, and opportunities for the future.
What does the future of qualifications look like?
Our flagship report draws on the views of over 6,000 students, teachers, employers and experts to shape recommendations on how we shape the future of qualifications and assessment in England for 14–19-year-olds.
Exploring onscreen assessment
We’re drawing on our experience of delivering onscreen assessments in more than 115 countries to shape what’s next for GCSE, International GCSE and A level exams.
As well as already offering onscreen exams in selected subjects, we're working alongside the education community to harness technology where it can positively impact schools' and students' assessment experiences.
The Future of Design Education
Over the past few months, we have been working with educators and organisations to drive forward fundamental change to design education in schools.
Starting with an ambitous call to action for the future of design education, we have since collaborated with teachers, industry partners and organisations to evolve our thinking, and have recently shared our vision for a curriculum focused towards Responsible Design and Innovation.
Stay up to date
On the 12 December 2024, the DfE published the outcome of their review of post-16 qualification reform.
The aim of the review was to determine which qualifications will be funded for 16-19 learners in England for the 2025/26 academic year.
General and sector specific
These sessions are for centres in England and will focus on the impact of Government reforms on post 16 qualifications and funding.
Attendees will hear our latest updates in response to Government's announcement (scheduled for December) after the pause and review and have the opportunity to ask questions.
BTEC's are evolving
We are pleased to announce that funding has been approved for the New BTEC Level 3 qualifications that we submitted in July 2023 as part of the Post-16 Level 3 vocational qualification reform.
The 12 new qualifications are across Science, ICT and Computing, Construction, Early Years, Health and Social Care and Engineering.
2024 Pearson Edexcel GCSE French, German and Spanish Qualifications
The new, 2024 Pearson Edexcel GCSE French, German and Spanish Qualifications are here! Our qualifications focus on building communication confidence and cultural understanding from a foundation of strong vocabulary knowledge to broaden students’ perspectives and opportunities.
Multi-Academy Trusts
Supporting transformation and improvement across your trust
Every trust has a unique set of needs. That’s why we’ll work with you to create the best package of teaching, learning and training solutions for your schools, teachers and learners.
Leading the way in diversity
We’re proud to be leading the way in diversifying the English curriculum.
A truly diverse curriculum is about more than just the texts on a specification. Which is why, for the past three years, we’ve been working with schools, publishers, and academics to make a real difference.
Our work in classrooms and education communities across the country is underpinned by three core beliefs. These beliefs lay the foundations for not only what we have already done in supporting schools with successfully diversifying the curriculum, but what we’ll continue to do.
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Grime Opera: A Musical Synthesis
A False Binary
Grime is a style of British rap music that emerged from the UK Garage scene during the early 2000s. The genre is defined by complex syncopated raps over fast beats, initially made famous by a generation of East London artists such as Wiley and Dizzie Rascal, and more recently, revived by the likes of Stormzy, who became the first British black solo artist to headline Glastonbury in 2019. On paper, Grime is perhaps not the natural bedfellow of Classical music. Grime Opera strives to challenge this assumption, uniting young people from a diverse range of backgrounds in pursuit of an authentic musical experience.
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A new climate for design education? Sylvia Knight in conversation with school Head of Tech, Michael Noonan
Through her work with the Royal Meteorological Society, Sylvia Knight has discovered a hunger for revised climate teaching within the secondary curriculum. She introduces the key issues facing schools and students today, and turns to tech teacher Michael Noonan for his thoughts from the frontline of teaching design and technology (D&T).
Policy Watch
Policy Watch is a regular policy briefing and updating service that keeps everyone up to date with the latest developments in the world of education. It is presented in a simple, accessible format through weekly updates, monthly summaries and associated papers and presentations.
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Highlights of the week ending 4 March
It has been a busy couple of weeks since the last Policy Watch with several significant (and long awaited) announcements being made. Ministers finally responded to Sir Philip Augar’s review of higher education finance, with changes proposed to repayment thresholds and terms. Many worry that this could prevent those from disadvantaged backgrounds entering HE. The details of the Lifelong Loan Entitlement were more warmly received as the policy has the potential to support reskilling. The Government also announced it would not be pursuing a post-qualifications admission system at the current time. And this week, the OfS set out its plans for tackling poor quality provision. After waiting for so long, if nothing else the sector has some clarity.
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Highlights of the week ending 18 February
Although Parliament is in recess, that hasn’t stopped the flow of policy pronouncements and speeches. DfE published Sir David Bell’s review of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, and in doing so announced the removal of its policy role. Response from the sector has been mixed with some welcoming ESFA’s tighter focus, whereas others wondered whether an opportunity had been missed for a more radical shake up.
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Highlights of the week ending 11 February
Apprenticeships took centre-stage as England, Wales and Northern Ireland celebrated National Apprenticeships Week (NAW). This gave policy makers the opportunity to make apprenticeship related announcements – in England, prisoners will soon be able to undertake apprenticeships for the first time, and in Wales £366m was pledged to deliver 125,000 all age apprenticeships over three years. Read the Pearson blog on NAW here.
