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Pearson 2024 Q1 Trading Update (Unaudited)

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Friday, April 26, 2024
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Pearson VUE won several new contracts, supporting pipeline growth, including university entrance tests in the UK and the teacher licence contract in Georgia.

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  • Pearson VUE won several new contracts, supporting pipeline growth, including university entrance tests in the UK and the teacher licence contract in Georgia.
  • Pearson Test of English declined slightly due to a strong comparator, and we expect performance will ramp through the year.
  • Expect growth momentum in the second half of 2024 with the growth of Higher Education and normalised comparators for the assessments businesses.
  • As a reminder, there was a weighting of sales to Q1 from Q2 due to the timing of state funding.

Pearson opens bookings for new PTE Core English proficiency test for Canadian economic migration visa purposes

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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LONDON, Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L), the world's leading learning company, today announced that bookings are now open for PTE Core, its newest English language proficiency test.

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  • LONDON, Jan. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L), the world's leading learning company, today announced that bookings are now open for PTE Core, its newest English language proficiency test.
  • PTE Core is a new addition to the Pearson Test of English portfolio, sharing many of the unique characteristics of PTE Academic.
  • Gio Giovannelli, President of the English Language Learning division at Pearson, said: "We are excited to roll out PTE Core to test takers across the world.
  • The fully digital PTE Core test is delivered through Pearson VUE, the computer-based testing business of Pearson.