Turn your audience into a recurring paycheque.
The Lift College Partner Programme pays UK creators 10% commission on every payment their referrals make, every month, for as long as they stay enrolled. Online AQA GCSEs and A Levels (Ofqual-regulated), Access to HE, Functional Skills and TQUK diplomas. No content quotas, and a £30 payout minimum, with anything under £30 carried into the next month.
UCAS PointsUp to 144 pts
Why partner with Lift College
Two ways to join, with the same promotion rules. Creators can join our in-house programme for recurring commission paid straight to a UK bank account. Publishers who already work through Awin can join Lift College there and keep everything in one network dashboard.
Recurring, not one-off
You earn 10% of every monthly payment your referral makes, for as long as they stay enrolled. Most courses take 12 to 18 months, so one referral can pay you for over a year.
A product worth recommending
Lift is a fully Ofqual-regulated UK online college. Real GCSEs, A Levels, Access to HE and vocational qualifications. Awarded by AQA, Pearson and WJEC. Not a “course platform” reselling other people’s content.
Two ways to join
Direct (creators): apply on this page. We approve within one working day, you earn 10% of every payment your referral makes for as long as they stay enrolled, and we pay your UK bank account on the 15th of each month.
Through Awin (publishers): content sites, comparison sites and course directories can join the Lift College programme on Awin (advertiser ID 131299). On Awin you earn a one-off commission on your referral’s first payment. Awin tracks and pays it, on Awin’s payment schedule. Rates are shown on our Awin programme page.
Choose one route. Each partner works with Lift College through one programme only.
30-day attribution window
If someone clicks your link and starts a Lift College course within 30 days, the referral is yours. On the direct programme, a free trial started inside those 30 days counts, and your commission starts with their first payment. If a learner clicks more than one partner’s link, the last partner link they clicked before enrolling gets the credit.
No exclusivity clause
Promote Coursera, Skillshare, FutureLearn, Open University, whoever. We do not ask you to pick sides. Lift just needs to be one of the recommendations you make.
Live tracking dashboard
See every click, sign-up, enrolment and payment in real time. Pull your own reports. Export to CSV. Set up webhooks. Everything you would expect from a proper affiliate platform, and none of what you would not.
Move the sliders.
Watch it add up.
Example figures: £45 blended average across the catalogue (range £29.99 to £129.99/mo) and a 15-month stay, within our typical 12 to 18 month course length. Every learner you refer keeps paying you commission every month they stay enrolled.
Four steps to your first payment.
From application to your first pay-out sits in a normal calendar month. Most partners see their first commission credited within 30 days of their first referral enrolling.
Apply
Two-minute application. Tell us where your audience lives (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, blog, newsletter, Discord), what you post about, and roughly how big your following is. We review same day.
Get approved
We look for a genuine UK audience with interest in education, career change, home-schooling, adult learning, careers, or professional development. Approved partners get their portal login within one working day.
Grab your link and share
Your dashboard has a personal tracking link, brand-approved images, ready-to-use hooks, course-specific landing pages, and vanity codes. Post it however you like, bio link, Reel, thread, story, blog, DMs.
Get paid, every month
Once a referral enrols, you earn 10% of every payment they make from that day onwards. Payments hit your UK bank account on the 15th of each month, with a downloadable statement.
Six qualification families.
Every one Ofqual-regulated.
You are not recommending unregulated “courses” or an app. You are recommending real UK qualifications, awarded by the same bodies used by every college and sixth form in the country.
A Levels
GCSEs
Access to HE
Health and Social Care
Teaching and Childcare
Functional Skills
Same 10% for everyone.
Bigger numbers the higher you climb.
Your commission rate never changes, it is 10% lifetime from day one, whether you refer 1 learner or 500. What changes is the size of your recurring paycheque as active learners stack up over time. Numbers below assume the tier’s concurrent active referrals at £45 blended monthly subscription and a 15-month stay.
Getting going
- 10% lifetime commission
- Personal tracking link
- Standard asset library
- Monthly bank payout
Building momentum
- Everything in Starter
- Custom UTM builder
- Course-specific landing pages
- Priority email support
- Monthly content briefs
Serious income
- Everything in Rising
- Named account manager
- Personal vanity code
- Feature slot on liftcollege.co.uk
- Early access to new courses
Top partners
- Everything in Creator
- Quarterly retainer bonus
- Co-branded landing pages
- Invite-only creator events
- First look at new pathways
What a serious creator actually takes home.
An education creator with 100k engaged UK followers converting a modest 0.5% into learners refers roughly 500 people in a year. At £45 blended monthly subscription and a 15-month stay, that single year’s cohort throws off substantial recurring income, and every subsequent year layers a fresh cohort on top before older ones roll off.
Honest about who this works for.
The programme is designed for real UK creators whose audience actually considers online education. It is not designed for everyone, and that is fine, we would rather tell you upfront.
Great fit Yes
- Education, revision and study creators, GCSE, A Level, Access to HE, or general “back to studying” content aimed at UK learners.
- Home-schooling and home-ed communities, parents and educators serving families outside mainstream schooling.
- Career-change and adult learning voices, content on retraining, upskilling, second careers, professional development.
- Healthcare, teaching, childcare and social care creators, content aimed at people building or moving into those careers.
- Nursing, midwifery and NHS pathway content, Access to HE Nursing is one of our top converters.
- Financial literacy and side-income creators, audiences looking at qualifications as a route to better pay.
Not the right fit No
- Purely international audiences, Lift’s qualifications are UK-regulated. If your audience is 90% US, this will not convert.
- Audiences of children. Lift College enrols learners from age 14, and under-18s enrol with a parent or guardian who holds the account. Content aimed at younger children isn’t a match. If your audience includes teenagers, speak to the parents and carers who make the decision.
- Get-rich-quick, MLM or crypto channels, we do not fit that positioning, and it will dilute your affiliate performance either way.
- Discount code, coupon or cashback sites. We don’t work with coupon, voucher or cashback sites on either route at the moment. Sales that use a code we haven’t issued to you don’t earn commission.
- Anonymous accounts with no track record, we need to see genuine audience engagement before approving.
- Anyone hoping to spam paid ads on our brand terms, bidding on “Lift College” and misspellings is a fast route to termination.
What high-performing partner posts actually look like.
You do not need to hard-sell. The formats below are the ones that consistently convert on each platform. Every partner gets briefs, hooks and templates for these on day one.
A proper partner toolkit,
not just a tracking link.
The moment you are approved, your dashboard loads with everything you need to start posting the same day. No waiting for assets, no chasing account managers.
Personal tracking link
Custom UTM parameters, deep-links to any course page or the catalogue, and a QR code generator for offline placements.
Real-time analytics dashboard
Clicks, sign-ups, enrolments, revenue and commissions updated live. Break it down by course, campaign, or channel.
Brand-approved asset library
Logos, colour palette, hero images, course thumbnails, story templates, carousel slides and short-form video B-roll, all ready to drop into your feed.
Ready-to-use hooks and scripts
Monthly refreshed hook library, TikTok/Reel script starters, thread openers, and CTA templates. All UK English, all tested.
Free course access
Any Lift course, free, so you can actually take it and speak about it authentically. Optional but we strongly recommend it, authentic partners convert 2 to 3x better.
Course-specific landing pages
Rather than pointing at the homepage, drop your audience straight onto the course page they came for. Tracked and optimised for conversion.
Optional vanity code
Your handle as a discount-code-shaped identifier (e.g. LIFT/ELLIE). Great for podcast mid-rolls and offline placements. Available from Creator tier upwards.
Direct account contact
Not a shared inbox. From day one, you have a named contact on our partnerships team who replies within one working day.
Simple, monthly, in GBP.
For direct partners: no PayPal fees and no long holdback. Commission goes straight into your UK bank account on the 15th of the following month, once you’ve passed a £30 minimum. Anything under £30 rolls forward automatically. Awin partners are paid by Awin under Awin’s own payment terms.
For commissions accrued the previous calendar month. Bank holidays roll to the next working day.
Direct into your business or personal current account. No PayPal, no Wise, no third-party middlemen or their fees.
Anything under £30 rolls into the next month automatically. Awin partners: Awin’s payment terms apply.
All commissions calculated and paid in pound sterling. No FX conversion, no hidden margins.
If someone clicks your link and starts a Lift College course within 30 days, you get the credit. Last-click attribution: if they click more than one partner’s link, the most recent partner link wins.
Direct: for as long as they’re enrolled. As long as they keep paying, you keep earning. Awin: one-off commission on the first payment.
Commission on a payment refunded under our 14-day money-back guarantee is reversed. Nothing else is. On Awin, this happens before the commission is approved.
Downloadable monthly statements for your bookkeeping. Includes referral-level breakdown and full VAT position.
Not employed by Lift. You are responsible for your own income tax and NI. We provide the paperwork you need for Self Assessment.
Everything else worth knowing.
Do I need a huge following to be accepted?
Should I join direct or through Awin?
Can I use paid ads?
What happens if my referral cancels or pauses?
Is there a contract or minimum term?
Can I promote Lift alongside other education brands?
Do I have to be a UK resident?
What about VAT?
How quickly will I see my first commission?
Who do I talk to if I have a question?
Ready to get paid for what
you already do?
Apply in under two minutes. We review the same day, approve within one working day, and your dashboard loads with everything you need to post that afternoon.