Pearson focussing on executive education space

Leading learning company Pearson India whose education solutions cover a wide spectrum of subjects and include books and resources is now focusing on executive education space where it is all about upskilling.

It has also emerged as a talent hub, says Pearson India managing director Vikas Singh.

"We are very big in the gateway space. Lots of global bestsellers in the higher education space are from Pearson. It's really a matter of pride our content is appreciated by learners and teachers alike," he says.

On the executive education space, he says that in the new scheme of things it is more about constant upskilling so that one remains relevant from a technology point of view.

"There are these concepts like half life of knowledge which basically says the time it takes for knowledge to become redundant is half of what it was five or six years ago. If you don't keep upskilling yourselves then at some point in time especially for the new generation coming in, chances are you will have a struggle. So we are getting into the executive education space," Singh told PTI.

"We very carefully select our programmes. We customise them to the Indian context and we ensure delivery experience which is more personalised, not really a mass number of people who can take a role in our programme. So that's also kicked off well," he says.

Established in India in 1998, Pearson India is aligned to the global brand philosophy of helping learners make measurable progress.

Summing up the journey, Singh says, "It has been a good run for us in the last 20 years. As the overall sector has scaled up, Pearson has scaled up on a much faster context. If we take the last two years as a reference point, we are a part of a geography which we call growth which is like the BRICS equivalent Brazil, not so much Russia but India, China and South Africa as also Middle East, Hong Kong."