Discover our first Impact Report

We are delighted to introduce our first ever Impact Report, our re-worked Annual Report highlighting some of the many ways in which students, alumni, employees and donors are seeking to create positive change along Pedder Bay and around the world. We invite you to review these stories of individual achievement, cooperative accomplishment and a collective will to envision a future focused on generosity, equity, climate justice and reconciliation.

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Choosing his Path in Finance

Having grown up in Burkina Faso, where unemployment rates are high, Prince Ilboudo (Year 35/2010, Burkina Faso) always had something of an entrepreneurial spirit. After Pearson, Prince applied to the London Business School to gain a comprehensive education in financial analysis, investment analysis and corporate finance. Read more

The Accent Tells My Story

Pearson alumni and Oklahoma University students Joy Nath (Year 44/2019, India), Tanzil Fatima (Year 44/2019, Pakistan) and Tomma Bambara (Year 43/2018, Burkina Faso) discuss accents and struggles they face in everyday life in the below linked article.

After reading this, Head Craig Davis reflected on his own training as an English teacher in the public school districts of London, UK. Teachers were required to complete a diversity unit called ‘Knowledge About Language’ contextualising accents and dialects in order to reveal the power dynamics at play. Understanding the shifting historical attitudes to accents and politics of grammatical change, raises the awareness of how rapidly globalised English changes and how standardised versions have always been used to amplify privilege and status quo. Teaching this unit to new speakers of English empowered students and helped them to challenge any imposed feelings of inferiority based on accent or dialect.

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Oh, the Places You'll Go (Post-Pearson)!

When it comes to education beyond Pearson our students may have an idea of what they want and where they might like to go but often its our Universities Counsellor who can help put student together with universities admissions and scholarships that help make dreams happen.
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30th Anniversary of UWC in Suzhou

Yi Wang (PC 16/1991, China), co-founder and the Vice Chair of the Board of UWC Changshu China (UWC CSC), was the gracious host and chair for the 30th anniversary event, held on the UWC CSC campus. He shared his life-changing experience at Pearson and explained how he brought that powerful education to the mainland of China.
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