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Corporate Social Responsibility
Education isn’t preparation for life. Education is life itself.” John
Dewey.
The Pearson Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Pearson plc, the world’s leading
learning Company. One of the world's leading media and education companies. Pearson
Foundation extends Pearson’s commitment to education by partnering with leading
nonprofit, civic, and business organizations to provide financial, organizational,
and publishing assistance across the globe.
We aim to make a difference by promoting literacy, learning, and great teaching.
We do this by collaborating with leading businesses, not-for-profits, and education
experts to share good practice; foster innovation; and find workable solutions to
the educational disadvantages facing millions of young people and adults across
the globe.
The idea of ‘corporate responsibility’ or ‘corporate citizenship’ isn’t new to any
part of Pearson.
So, for many years the notion of social responsibility has been at the core of our
business. Inside Pearson we express that in three values: brave, imaginative and
decent. We’re proud that our record has been recognized with many awards and quality
standards for responsible business; but at the same time we are determined that
we should keep on learning and improving.
We believe we have a deep responsibility to play a part in helping to improve life
opportunities for students wherever our educational services are being used. We
continue to work to connect our products and services to provide integrated learning
platforms that make teaching more efficient and learning more personal. Our research
– both in-house and independently conducted – provides evidence that our products
are helping to enhance student learning; by bringing some of these together, we
are able to offer students and educators highly effective tools to support education.
We give books’ and ‘Pearson Foundation’s literary alliance’ are some of the unique
global initiatives by Pearson Foundation to promote learning through reading.
The Pearson Foundation is excited about partnering the ‘Support My School’
campaign’ a movement for Healthy, Active and Happy schools.
As ‘Learning Partner’, Pearson Foundation will bring wealth of global experience
in domain of education and training. In the schools covered under the Support My
School (SMS) campaign, Pearson Foundation will establish libraries with a wide range
of books, to help children supplement their education by reading on a variety of
subjects towards enhancing their knowledge levels. The Foundation will also provide
contextual training to teachers in these schools through NGOs and also make contribution
to the corpus to promote learning in a big way.
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