Talk:Pearson plc/Archives/2014

Introduction reads like an advertisement
The second paragraph seems more like an internal, Pearson discussion than relevant and useful information for the public. It also uses some jargon:

"accelerate their push into digital learning, education services and emerging markets. "

I'm not sure whether this is advertisement-like language, or just a bit off-topic, so I didn't want to apply a banner to the section without discussion.

Wulfcoen (talk) 10:55, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Early origins
A strange gap in the history: when did Pearson stop being a civil engineering firm? The history has them as engineers pure and simple until WWI; then immediately after the war buying most of a bank and several newspapers, and after that there's no indication it's anything other than a pure publisher. A very dramatic change to make in such a (relatively) short time - was it already a diversified holding company in 1914? Did it remain in engineering well into the twentieth century? Andrew Gray (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2014 (UTC)