The economic cost of the transition from education to employment for the US economy is $1.1 trillion per year.

In Switzerland, 70% of graduating students choose vocational training pathways instead of traditional degree pathways.

Data from Pearson's educational products indicates that students using integrated AI tools are advancing to higher levels on the cognitive learning scale, such as Bloom's Taxonomy.

Employees who actively learn and adopt new AI technology can increase their personal productivity by a factor of 10.

Omar Abbosh refutes the narrative from Silicon Valley that AI-driven changes in software engineering will translate to all other jobs within two years, calling the prediction "just not true."

The economic impact of AI will be analogous to the business process re-engineering trend of the 1990s, focusing on reconfiguring processes and jobs rather than causing mass job displacement.

The typical time between finishing school and securing a job in the United States is 26 weeks.

Studies from institutions like MIT have shown that students using unrestricted AI tools become more confident in their learning but achieve worse exam results than their peers.

Joint research by Pearson and AWS on AI readiness reveals a significant disconnect between how prepared higher education institutions believe their students are and the perceptions of employers and st...

At Pearson, 900 engineers are using the AI-powered coding tool Cursor.

Pearson has deployed an internal AI agent named "Cara" within Microsoft Teams to help employees navigate their career architecture and identify training needs.

Due to the importance of workforce reskilling for AI adoption, the role of the CEO is evolving to encompass the responsibilities of a "chief learning officer."