AcceleratED Pathways for high-potential managers

Best-in-breed education, customized for your workforce development challenges

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One partnership does it all

Pearson connects you to flexible, best-in-breed programs from a wide network of great institutions, helping you drive more value from education at all levels, everywhere you operate. Our focused, individualized education for employee development can help you promote both retention and competitiveness.

Through one easy-to-manage partnership, you can:

  • Help managers earn degrees to advance
  • Give technical professionals key skills to widen their capabilities
  • Strengthen organizational competencies wherever needed
  • Prepare professionals for management or specialization
  • Help employees balance education with workplace and family commitments

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Degree & Certification Programs

How online learning affects the lives of students

AcceleratED Pathways employee development includes:

  • Clear degree pathways and stackable credentials
  • Flexible degree offerings, including online, weekend, and evening classes
  • Tailored programs, with company-specific projects, capstones, and classroom cohorts
  • Branding of your educational presence, with customized promotional materials
  • Talent acquisition assistance
  • Complete student support, advising, and coaching from enrollment through graduation
  • In-depth analytics and dashboards

Pathways for every industry

We can help employees in all industries with the education / credentials they need, in these and other fields:

  • Business
  • Health & Nursing
  • Engineering
  • Social Work
  • Education
  • Cybersecurity
  • And more

9 education benefits strategies for recruiting, retaining, and empowering an outstanding workforce

In the white paper Education: a powerful way to re-ignite employee loyalty, you’ll learn 9 strategies to help solve common recruitment and retention issues, along with solutions for quickly implementing strategies that add value to your educational benefits, improve persistence and completion, and increase participation.

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High accountability, low cost

Pearson’s dashboards and visual data analytics tools make it easy to track the ROI of your employee development investments. You can instantly see each employee’s progress, and even correlate education with performance.

We can often offer tuition discounts and application fee waivers for your employees, and even for immediate family members. We may be able to identify additional sources of tuition assistance, as well, reducing costs even further.

Education tailored for your workforce development goals

Working with Pearson’s unsurpassed network of prestigious higher education institutions, we can help you customize programs around your goals and challenges at a very low cost. Employees pursuing degrees can learn alongside colleagues, through case studies and examples focused on your company or industry. We can provide fully-aligned programs to support corporate initiatives around performance, customer focus, quality, safety, or any other key goal.

Since this education reflects your needs and career development pathways, employees know it can help them advance. That’s a powerful motivation to stay. Meanwhile, your workforce development investments are tightly focused on driving value: executing on strategy, serving customers, reducing costs, and growing profits.

Empowering employees through innovative education options

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Build alliances with universities to empower and educate employees

In our new webinar, Maryville University and Mercy Health System show how to grow and keep desperately needed talent by creating win-win partnerships with academic institutions that place your employee front and center. Hosted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and sponsored by Pearson.

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Extend groundbreaking college opportunities to employees

Discover how Starbucks and Arizona State University are offering a rigorous, engaging, affordable college education to every Starbucks employee. Learn how Starbucks offers full tuition reimbursement to Starbucks employees in a rigorous online ASU program that can scale seamlessly with the same high levels of student support.

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Building a movement: how a new initiative empowers workers

Learn about common barriers along the pathway to education, and how Brinker International, the company that owns Chili’s® Grill & Bar and Maggiano’s Little Italy®, has developed a new initiative to overcome them. 

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