Indian-curriculum tuition, wherever you have moved
110 of CBSE’s 269 overseas schools are in the UAE alone. If your child is on the Indian curriculum abroad, they are sitting the same syllabus, the same books and the same board exam as a child in India — which is exactly why a teacher here is the right person to teach it.
Does the time difference actually work?
It is the first thing most families ask and the easiest to answer badly, so here is every market at once. The Gulf is the easy case - India is only an hour or two ahead, so an early-evening class in India lands in the late afternoon there, before dinner and while a child can still concentrate.
| Where | India is ahead by | A 6pm IST class starts at | School week | Billed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain | 2.5 hours | 3:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | BHD |
| Jeddah | 2.5 hours | 3:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | SAR |
| Kuwait | 2.5 hours | 3:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | KWD |
| Qatar | 2.5 hours | 3:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | QAR |
| Riyadh | 2.5 hours | 3:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | SAR |
| Saudi Arabia | 2.5 hours | 3:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | SAR |
| Abu Dhabi | 1.5 hours | 4:30pm | Monday to Friday | AED |
| Ajman | 1.5 hours | 4:30pm | Monday to Friday | AED |
| Dubai | 1.5 hours | 4:30pm | Monday to Friday | AED |
| Muscat | 1.5 hours | 4:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | OMR |
| Oman | 1.5 hours | 4:30pm | Sunday to Thursday | OMR |
| Sharjah | 1.5 hours | 4:30pm | Monday to Friday, with a Friday-to-Sunday government weekend | AED |
| the UAE | 1.5 hours | 4:30pm | Monday to Friday | AED |
| Kuala Lumpur | -2.5 hours | 8:30pm | Monday to Friday | MYR |
| Malaysia | -2.5 hours | 8:30pm | Monday to Friday in most states | MYR |
The school week matters as much as the clock. Much of the Gulf runs Sunday to Thursday, so Friday and Saturday are the free days rather than Saturday and Sunday - which is exactly when Indian teachers have most availability, and one reason this works better than it sounds.
Every place we teach, and what makes each one different
Each page is written from that market’s own verified facts — its regulator, its school week, its academic calendar — rather than one template with the place name swapped in.
Where we don’t claim to be the right answer
Plenty of sites list every country on earth. We checked what parents actually search, and in most places the honest answer is that we are not what you need.
- The US and Canada - there is effectively no search demand for Indian-curriculum tuition there, and in American English 'tuition' means fees, not tutoring
- The UK and Australia - the same pattern; British and Australian Indian families are overwhelmingly on local curricula, not CBSE
- Singapore and Hong Kong - both look promising until you check the intent, where every result is about university fees rather than school tutoring
- Cambridge-specific IGCSE coursework and English literature - our Malaysia page says plainly where our fit ends
What the time difference really means
Stated properly, because “flexible scheduling” is not an answer.
UAE & Oman
India 1h30m ahead - an after-school class there is an early-evening class here. Genuinely comfortable.
Qatar, Saudi, Kuwait & Bahrain
India 2h30m ahead, and the school day ends early afternoon. The easiest fit of all.
Malaysia
Malaysia 2h30m ahead of India instead, so an Indian late-afternoon slot is the practical window.
Teaching Indian-curriculum children abroad
Why teach from India rather than hire a tutor locally?
Because your child is sitting the Indian syllabus. For a CBSE or ICSE child the books, chapter sequence and Class 10 board exam are the same as in India, and the teachers with the most experience of that exact syllabus are in India. Where that logic does not hold, we say so - our Malaysia page is explicit about the limits of our IGCSE fit.
Do the time zones actually work?
For the Gulf, genuinely well - India is only 90 minutes ahead of the UAE and Oman, and two and a half hours ahead of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, so an after-school class there is a normal teaching evening here. Malaysia is two and a half hours ahead of India instead, which makes an Indian late-afternoon slot the practical window. We would rather set that out plainly than imply easy scheduling everywhere.
Which currency do we pay in?
Your own. Fees are published in dirhams, riyals, rials, dinars or ringgit depending on where you are, at prices set for that market rather than converted from Indian rates. Everything is listed on the fees page instead of quoted on a call.
Why is the fee higher than the Indian price for the same class?
Because it is priced against your alternatives rather than ours. Dubai's median Grade 5 school tuition alone is AED 17,062 a year on KHDA's published data, and local in-person tutoring is quoted by the hour. An FX-converted Indian price would land near AED 8 a class, which is not a credible price for live teaching in that market.
What if we move back to India partway through the year?
Nothing about the teaching changes - the same teacher, the same syllabus, and the same class times if they still suit you. This is one of the real advantages of being taught from India on the Indian curriculum: moving home is a change of address rather than a change of school system.
Do you cover the US, UK, Canada or Australia?
Not with these tuition pages, and deliberately so. Our research found effectively no demand for Indian-curriculum tuition at those phrasings - and in American English 'tuition' means fees, so the searches are about college costs rather than tutoring. Where we can genuinely help those families is heritage language, and Hindi classes for children are the honest entry point there.
Is the free assessment really free, wherever we are?
Yes, everywhere. It is one live class with a real teacher, with no card taken and nothing to cancel, and afterwards you get an honest note on what the teacher actually noticed - including if we think the fit is wrong. Book one here.
Tell us where you are and which class your child is in.
One free live class first, with no card and nothing to cancel. If we are not the right fit for your curriculum, we will say so.
- You tell us the class, board and what is going wrong.
- We match a teacher who has taught exactly that, and send you a time.
- A free 20-minute assessment. Sit beside your child if you like.
- No card, no commitment
- Live classes, never a crowd
- The same teacher every week