Turn quality education into real experience.
You teach people new skills. We help them prove it. By building SkilledUp Life into your offering, your students gain demonstrable experience with real tech startups, and you stand out from every other provider.
Why education providers join
Education gets your students ready. We get them experience.
Recruiters want demonstrable experience and skills, not just another certificate. SkilledUp Life lets your learners volunteer with real early stage tech startups, closing the gap between a qualification and a career.
Improve your students' odds
Pair your curriculum with real, references-worthy experience so graduates stand out and land their dream roles faster.
Differentiate your offering
Build SkilledUp Life into your programme and offer something competing universities, colleges and bootcamps do not.
Grow your own business
A stronger outcomes promise helps you attract, enrol and retain more learners, and grow faster.
Experience employers can see, before they graduate.
Your students and graduates join SkilledUp Life as Volunteers and contribute to real tech startups, building the experience and references that a qualification alone cannot give them.
Real experience, real tech startups
Volunteer with early stage tech startups in 158+ countries, on real products, real customers and real deadlines.
Free to join
Joining SkilledUp Life as a Volunteer is free, for students and graduates alike.
Fits around their studies
Fully remote and up to 3 hours a day on weekdays, so volunteering fits around lectures, exams and part-time jobs.
A clear Volunteer Term
Each Volunteer Term is 60 Volunteer days over three months or more, with clear outcomes, daily updates and fast feedback.
Endorsements that count
On satisfactory completion, the startup provides a testimonial, a letter of recommendation and permission to list the role on their CV and LinkedIn.
A pathway, not a one-off
Nine career pathways, from Market Research to Legal, show the next role to take on and the skills to build.
A chance to stand out
More than anything, a chance to show what they are made of. Delivering outstanding results means becoming a high performer.
Clear, fair terms
Every role starts with a signed Volunteer Agreement covering hours, who owns what they create, notice and endorsements.
Volunteering is unpaid. There are no paid jobs provided by tech startups on SkilledUp Life; the reward is the experience, the skills and the endorsements.
From first hello to a lasting partnership.
Every Education Partner follows the same clear, formal path. Eight steps take us from a first email to a lasting partnership that helps your students and graduates.
Enquiry and introductions
You email us, or we reach out to you. We follow up by email and on LinkedIn to learn about each other.
30-minute Zoom call
A short call to get to know each other and explore what the partnership could do for your community.
Sign the MoU
We issue a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Both parties sign it, and the partnership is formal.
Recognise each other
We list you as a partner on our partner pages, and you list SkilledUp Life as a partner on your website.
Volunteer briefing session
For some Education Partners, we run a live briefing session that explains how volunteering on SkilledUp Life runs for those signing up as Volunteers. It depends on our availability, so it is not always possible and it is not mandatory.
Education Partners · when possibleYour name in our Partner list
We will add you to our Partner list, so Volunteers can choose you as their referral when they sign up.
Coming soon · planned before the end of 2026Online events
We support your online events wherever it makes sense for both communities. Once we relaunch our own events, we may invite you to join us at our online events.
Regular dialogue
We keep in regular contact to make sure the partnership stays healthy and keeps delivering value for both sides.
Every partnership is non-commercial and built in good faith. Start with an enquiry →
A simple, four-way collaboration.
Our partnerships are non-commercial and built on good faith. Once you are on board, this is how we collaborate.
Into your curriculum
We join your events and sessions to introduce SkilledUp Life to your students, and help you build it into your curriculum.
Run things jointly
We support your online events where it makes sense. Once we relaunch our own events, we are happy to host joint sessions and may invite you to ours.
Tell the story
Releasing news? We will provide a quote from our CEO and explore joint coverage on news and blog sites.
Champion each other
We add your logo here, publish a blog article and share it across our channels. We ask you to do the same.
Providers we are proud to partner with.
From Cameroon to the UK, these education providers are giving their learners a route to real experience through SkilledUp Life.
MBEducation courses in UI/UX design, software development and digital marketing.
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SKCourses in UI/UX design, software engineering, AI, animation and digital marketing.
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MSCourses in software engineering, data science, cyber security and product design.
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SACourses in product management, data analysis, graphic design, UI/UX design and cyber security.
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TJCourses in product management, data analysis, UX design, software engineering and cyber security.
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UtCourses in product management, software engineering, business analysis, sales and cyber security.
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MAAccredited courses and boot camps in AI, software development, design and cyber security.
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MTA catalogue of courses in creative, marketing, product, management, data and cloud.
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NLCourses in data analysis, project management and digital marketing.
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TeCourses in data analysis, project management and digital marketing.
Visit site ↗We enter these non-commercial partnerships in good faith to help students gain the experience and demonstrable skills to improve their career prospects. We have not vetted these partners and have no involvement in, or understanding of, their commercial models and business practices. As with any business, some partner organisations may run into problems. Listing here should not be read as an endorsement of their commercial practices. Thank you for your understanding.
Let's give your students an equal footing.
If you run a university, college, bootcamp or online courses, we would love to explore partnering. Reach out through Contact Us and our partnerships team will be in touch.