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Most of the fee is yours
You see what the student pays, and you see exactly what you keep — up to 85% of every session. No agency takes the larger share; that is the whole reason we built this.
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The people who do the teaching
should keep its value.
Wisesprout is run by active researchers at a top UK university. We built the platform we wanted to exist — the account is open, most of the fee follows the teaching, and the course belongs to the person who teaches it. If you do real research and love to teach, this page is for you.
PhD candidates · PostdocsBecome a mentorOne-to-one teaching, GCSE to admissions tests. A transparent split that rises to 85% — and a seat beside professors in our flagship programmes.For mentorsFacultyTeach as a professorFlagship courses on your terms — seminars, live experiments, demonstrations. The most competitive pay in the field, and a platform that carries everything else.For professors
How we work
Four things we hold to.
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You set your rate
You choose your rate within your tier's band, so it reflects your academic standing — not a race to the bottom against the cheapest listing on a marketplace.
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You teach. We carry the rest.
Scheduling, payments, materials, matching students to the right mentor — the admin runs underneath you. You show up and teach.
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Your name stays yours
Mentors teach under their own names — the reputation you build here is yours, and it travels with you. Professors choose how public to be — full, partial or anonymised — and can change it later.
For PhD candidates & postdocs
Not another tutoring agency.
Most agencies hide the price from both ends — the student never learns what the tutor keeps, and the tutor never learns what the student paid. We put the whole account on the table: you know what the student pays, you know your share, and your share grows the longer you teach — from 70%, up to 85%. Try it on the right: that slider runs the exact formula our payout engine runs.
Live demo — the real formula
Drag to watch your share grow.
70%caps at 85%
- Student pays (example rate)
- £80
- You keep
- £56
Example at £80/session — you set your own rate. These numbers come from the same formula as our payout engine.
Teach beside professors
Our flagship Future Scholars programmes take teaching fellows — the professor gives the lectures, you run the small groups and the questions. Real teaching alongside named academics, the kind that belongs on an academic CV.
Built around your research
You choose your hours and your load. Teaching fits around lab time and deadlines — not the other way round.
The subjects we need most
Sciences and quantitative subjects, GCSE and A-level through to university admissions tests. ESAT and TMUA mentors are in especially high demand right now.
We stay selective on purpose. Students trust that everyone here is genuinely active in research — that trust is the product. If you are a PhD candidate or postdoc at a leading UK university and you would teach well, the rest is a short application, read by one of us.
Start your application
No certificates, no automated screening — researcher to researcher.
For faculty
Your course. Your terms.
We pay professors the most competitive rates in the field — a flat 85% share on one-to-one teaching, and project-based fees for flagship group courses. But what keeps professors here isn't the number. It's what teaching feels like:
Not another slide reading
Our courses are not PPT liturgies. Live experiments, demonstrations, animation, argument — if you love teaching itself and want lessons to look the way you always felt they should, you will be at home here.
No format police
No house template, no minimum slide count, no mechanical requirements. Lecture, lab, seminar, field visit — your course, defined by you.
You teach; we carry everything else
Scheduling, payments, materials, logistics, parents — handled, on a platform built to stay out of your way. You show up, teach, run the experiment, talk with the students.
Teaching tours, first class
If your course is selected for our in-person series in China, we arrange the whole trip — premium flights and hotels throughout, plus a holiday package on top.
Equity, in time
Long-term partners earn equity in Wisesprout as the collaboration deepens. We mean the first line of this page literally: the people who do the teaching should own a share of its value.
Colleagues, not contractors
We are open researchers ourselves. A new course, a new format, a half-formed idea — bring it over any time. We speak the language.
Professors join by invitation — and the form below is how that conversation starts. Tell us who you are and what you would love to teach; one of us will write back within days.
Expression of interest
Five questions, two minutes.
This form is for faculty. PhD candidates and postdocs apply through mentor registration above.