CBT GROUP SIGNS AGREEMENT TO DEVELOP WITH NETSCAPE SOFTWARE FOR NETSCAPE'S
JAVASCRIPT AND LIVEWIRE

CBT TO DEVELOP INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE FOR THE JAVASCRIPT
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND LIVEWIRE VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 16, 1996) -- CBT Group PLC (NASDAQ: CBTSY)
today signed an agreement with Netscape Communications Corporation to
provide self-paced, interactive education and training for the new
JavaScript scripting language and Netscape LiveWire visual development
environment. The educational products, being developed by CBT and
Netscape, will be offered through both companies' market channels and on
the Internet through the Netscape electronic General Store.

"As Web sites become more and more prevalent, developers need tools such as
Netscape LiveWire and JavaScript to manage and maintain their sites. CBT's
tutorials for these products will provide our customers with high quality
interactive education software to get them up and running efficiently,"
said Mike Homer, senior vice president of marketing at Netscape.

"CBT Systems is pleased to expand our working relationship with Netscape.
The Internet is a very large, growing market and CBT Systems is absolutely
focused on presenting interactive educational software for Internet and
Intranet based applications," said William McCabe, president and CEO of
CBT Systems.

Netscape LiveWire is a professional visual development environment that
includes a site manager, a server extension engine and Netscape Navigator
Gold for easy site maintenance. JavaScript is an open, cross-platform
object scripting language that make it easy to develop online applications
for Intranets and the Internet.

Educational software products for both Netscape LiveWire and JavaScript
will be available via individual license and will include interactive,
self-paced courses ranging from an introduction to the products to more
advanced levels. Each course includes CBT's pre- and post-testing and
reporting systems to record each user's progress.

There is a growing need for greater information technology training at
every level of the information technology spectrum, and CBT has a broad
range of alliances with a variety of other key information technology
vendors in addition to Netscape. Working with these partners, CBT provides
complete sets of curricula to train users on specific software platforms,
speeding implementation and effectiveness.

CBT Group is a leading provider of interactive education software designed
to meet businesses' information technology education and training needs.
The company develops, publishes and markets a broad library of software
titles focused on client-server technologies and delivered on networked
and stand alone PCs. The company's products are used by hundreds of the
world's leading corporations to train employees to effectively develop and
apply client-server technologies. Each CBT Group customer is supported by
a network of experienced sales, service and support professionals and
specialists.

Corporate Sales: 415/937-2555; Personal Sales: 415/937-3777; Federal Sales:
415/937-3678
 
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