Pearson plans 50 schools

Academic publisher Pearson said it will build 50 more English language schools in China.
Pearson, which already educates around 50,000 students at 66 language centers across China, hopes that the new facilities will boost the number of pupils it teaches to 100,000.
Chief executive John Fallon said, "We’ve opened six new centers this year and now plan to step up the pace of expansion. We now employ more than 3,000 people in China, our largest group of Pearson colleagues outside the US and UK, and this number will continue to grow rapidly as we expand our teaching, assessment, learning technology and publishing activities."
AsiaOne reports the company hopes to gain a foothold in the cities of Nanjing, Suzhou, Dongguan, Wuhan, Chengdu and Chongqing, creating up to 2,000 jobs.