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. Ofqual-regulated online GCSEs, A Levels, and vocational courses. Zero tiers to unlock. Zero content quotas. Zero minimum earnings threshold.
UCAS PointsUp to 144 pts
An offer built for creators, not networks.
Most UK edu-affiliate programmes route through Awin or Impact, cap your commission, cookie you for 30 days, and pay once, if you clear an £80 threshold. We built ours from scratch, in-house, with none of that.
Recurring, not one-off
You earn 10% of every monthly payment your referral makes, for as long as they stay enrolled. Average learner tenure is 15 months, so one referral typically pays you for over a year.
A product worth recommending
Lift is a fully Ofqual-regulated UK online college. Real GCSEs, A Levels, and vocational qualifications. Awarded by AQA, Pearson and WJEC. Not a “course platform” reselling other people’s content.
Direct, no middleman
No Awin, no Impact, no Refersion. We run our own affiliate platform, approve you within one working day, and pay direct to your UK bank account on the 15th of every month.
90-day attribution cookie
The industry standard is 30 days. Education is a considered purchase, people research for weeks before enrolling. Our 90-day window means you get credit even when they take their time.
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.
Based on our real numbers: £45 blended average across the catalogue (real range £9.99 to £119.99/mo), 15-month average tenure. 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.
Seven 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
Health and Social Care
Teaching and Childcare
Management and Leadership
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, 15-month average tenure.
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 15-month average tenure, 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, 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.
- 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.
- Under-16 audiences, our learners are 16+. Content targeted at school-age children is not a match.
- 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 do not operate voucher promotions and our terms exclude coupon publishers.
- 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.
No PayPal fees, no minimum-earnings cliff of £80, no 60-day holdback. Straight into your UK bank account on the 15th of the following month.
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. You never lose accrued commission.
All commissions calculated and paid in pound sterling. No FX conversion, no hidden margins.
If someone clicks your link and enrols within 90 days, you get commission. First-click attribution.
Not 12 months. Not 24 months. As long as they keep paying, you keep earning.
Only commissions on payments refunded inside our 14-day cooling-off period are reversed. Nothing else.
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?
How is this different from Awin, Impact or another affiliate network?
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?
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