Moving to Dubai With IB Children: The Sequence That Keeps the Diploma Intact

Moving to Dubai with IB children is not one decision but six, taken in a fixed order, and the cost of taking them out of order is paid by the child rather than the employer. Relocating to Dubai with a child part-way through an International Baccalaureate (IB) programme is one of the few school moves where the curriculum travels with you. That is the good news, and it is genuinely good: an IB World School in Dubai runs the same Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP) framework as an IB World School in Singapore, Zurich or Johannesburg. What does not travel is everything around the curriculum — the regulator, the compulsory subjects, the academic year dates, the examination series your child is registered for, and the fact that the place you choose to live determines how much of your child's day is spent in a car.

This guide is for parents who have accepted a role in Dubai, or are about to, and whose children are in PYP, MYP or DP, or sitting Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel International GCSEs. It is organised as a sequence rather than a list of tips, because relocation decisions have an order and taking them out of order is what produces the expensive mistakes: signing a tenancy before confirming a school place, or booking a flight that lands after the examination entry deadline has passed.

Nothing here is a school recommendation. We hold no relationship with any Dubai school and name none as a client or partner. Every regulatory statement is attributed to the body that published it, and where a fact could not be verified from an official source, it says so.

The One Thing to Settle Before You Sign Anything: Which Year Group, Which Programme

Before a tenancy, before a school visit, before a shipping quote, establish exactly which point of which IB programme your child will join, and get it in writing from the receiving school.

This sounds administrative. It is the hinge of the entire move, for two reasons.

The first is the DP two-year block. The Diploma Programme is a continuous two-year course with internally assessed components — Internal Assessments (IAs) in each subject, the Extended Essay (EE) and the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) essay — that accumulate across both years and are submitted to deadlines set by the school's IB coordinator. A student moving mid-DP is not changing schools; they are transferring an assessment portfolio. The receiving school has to accept the subject combination, the levels, the EE topic and supervisor arrangement, and the IA progress. A school may offer the subjects your child needs and still not be able to take them mid-cycle at the levels they are registered for, because a Higher Level (HL) class may be full or the particular HL option may not run.

The second is the academic year boundary. Dubai private schools do not all start in the same month. KHDA's mandatory-subject guidance makes this explicit in passing: requirements had to be implemented by the start of the 2025-26 academic year, with April 2026 named separately for schools whose academic year begins in April. Most international schools in Dubai run an August or September start, but Indian-curriculum schools and some others run an April start. If your child is moving between those two patterns, a term can disappear or repeat.

Put bluntly: the order above is school, then area, then tenancy. Families who reverse it — choosing a community from a property website and then looking for schools near it — are the families who end up with a forty-minute school run in each direction on Sheikh Zayed Road.

What Dubai's Private School Market Actually Looks Like Before You Start Searching

A sense of scale helps, because the search feels unbounded until you have numbers attached to it.

The first three figures come from the Dubai Media Office's January 2025 statement on the private school sector, which also reports seventeen different curricula licensed in the emirate, with the UK curriculum at 37% of students, Indian curricula at 26% and American curricula at 14%. The fourth comes from KHDA's own announcement that Dubai's 2026-27 intake adds seven new private schools — four UK curriculum and three International Baccalaureate — creating 16,846 new places, following six new schools in 2025-26 and a 6% rise in enrolment.

Two things follow for an incoming IB family.

IB is a minority programme here, and that is the constraint. Seven per cent of a 387,441-student market is a substantial absolute number, but it means the IB school set is far smaller than the British school set. For a mid-year DP transfer with a specific HL combination, the list of schools that can genuinely take your child may be very short. Start the enquiry earlier than you think you need to.

Supply is expanding in your direction. Three of the seven new schools for 2026-27 are IB. That matters for a family arriving over the next couple of years, because a new IB school has capacity and an unformed year group, which is often easier for a mid-cycle joiner than squeezing into an established cohort.

The ring is the reason an IB enquiry has to start early: the British school set in Dubai is more than five times the size of the IB set, so a shortlist built on "good schools near the office" will be mostly schools your child cannot join. The 16% residual is simply what remains once the four named curricula in the Dubai Media Office release are counted. Our own shortlisting criteria for the programme are set out in the best IB schools in Dubai, and the Abu Dhabi equivalent in the best IB schools in Abu Dhabi.

A further planning anchor: KHDA confirmed on 22 May 2026 that there will be no increase in school fees for private schools in Dubai for the 2026-27 academic year, under the emirate's second economic incentives package valued at AED 1.5 billion within an AED 2.5 billion total. If you are modelling a relocation budget, that is one line you can hold flat for a year — which is unusual enough to be worth noting.

The Compulsory Subjects Nobody Warns You About

Your child's IB programme arrives in Dubai intact. Three additional subjects arrive with it, and they are not optional.

Arabic, Islamic Education and Social or Moral Studies are mandatory in all Dubai private schools regardless of the licensed international curriculum, under KHDA's mandatory-subjects guidance. The federal basis sits on u.ae: private schools are not obliged to follow a specific curriculum beyond Arabic language, social studies and Islamic studies, but must adhere to the Ministry's general regulations. So the IB framework is the school's licensed curriculum, and these three subjects sit alongside it.

How they are organised depends on whether your child is Arab or non-Arab, and KHDA regulates that split tightly. Its guidance states that for Arabic as a first language, Islamic Education and Social Studies, schools must organise separate classes for Arabs and non-Arabs, and that combined classes for both groups are strictly prohibited due to the different curriculum expectations and language of instruction. Non-Arab students are taught Islamic Education and Moral, Social and Cultural studies in the school's licensed-curriculum language — English, in an English-medium IB school — while Arab students take Islamic Education and Arabic as a first language in Standard Arabic.

Read across the two columns and the practical consequence is clear: your child's placement decides the subject, the language it is taught in and the room it is taught in. That is a question for admissions in writing, not something to discover from a report card in December. Support for either side of the split starts at IB MYP Arabic tutoring in Dubai or, for a genuine Diploma beginner, IB DP Arabic ab initio tutoring in Dubai.

For a relocating family, the practical questions are narrow and answerable:

• Which Arabic stream will my child be placed in, and on what assessment?
• How many weekly minutes does Arabic take, and what does it displace on the timetable?
• Is my child joining a class of absolute beginners or a class that has been running for six years?

That last one is the question that decides whether Arabic needs support. A ten-year-old joining MYP in Dubai from a school with no Arabic enters a class where classmates have had five or six years of it. KHDA calculates mandatory-subject instructional time on the basis of a 40-minute lesson unit, allows schools to vary lesson length as long as the weekly total is met, and advises at least 25 minutes for any mandatory-subject lesson — so the time commitment is real, not nominal. If this is your situation, the Arabic guide for expatriate IGCSE students works through the streaming rules and the examination decision in full, including the Ministry rule that excludes Arabic from the five subjects required for equivalency.

Those three answers, together, tell you whether Arabic is a subject that needs a tutor or a subject that simply needs time. A ten-year-old joining a class that has been running since Year 1 is the one case in this article where sustained support is usually justified from day one rather than after a diagnostic.

Where You Live Decides How Much School Your Child Actually Gets

This is the part of a Dubai relocation that no school prospectus covers and that reshapes a child's academic week more than almost any other single decision.

Dubai is a long, linear city built along a small number of arterial roads, and the school run happens in the two windows when those roads are at their worst. The number that matters is not distance. It is the bus pick-up time, because a child collected at 06:20 for a 07:45 start loses the quiet morning hour that homework and revision actually fit into, five days a week, for years.

Those are general characterisations of each community, not rankings, and not claims about any school in them. The honest advice is procedural: once you have a shortlist of schools that can take your child, ask each school's transport office which of these communities it runs a bus to and what the pick-up time is. Then do the arithmetic on sleep. A family that treats the pick-up time as a hard input and the community as the variable gets a better outcome than one that does it the other way around.

That figure is an illustration of how commute choices compound, not a measured survey of Dubai school bus times. Get your own numbers from the schools on your shortlist. The point it makes is structural: across a 180-day school year, a thirty-minute difference in pick-up time is roughly ninety hours of a child's life, which is more than any tutoring plan you are likely to buy.

The Examination Calendar Your Move Has to Fit Around

If your child is in DP2 or Year 11, the relocation date is not really a family-logistics question. It is an examinations question, and the deadlines are set by organisations that do not know you are moving.

Start with what is verified and what is not, because this market is full of confidently wrong dates.

Cambridge and Pearson, verified. Cambridge International runs IGCSE, O Level and International A Level examinations in a June series and a November series, with Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint tests in March, May and October. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE runs in May/June and November. Cambridge's February/March series is offered to India only — a Dubai-based candidate sits June or November, and a revision plan built towards a March paper is built for the wrong country.

A Cambridge administrative detail worth more than it sounds. Cambridge allocates every centre to one of six administrative zones, states that it is essential to use the correct version of the timetable for your zone, and says it cannot accept responsibility for candidates who miss an examination because the wrong zone timetable was used. When your child changes centre mid-course, the zone may change with it. Ask the new school's examinations officer, in writing, which zone the centre is in.

Look at which month stays dark. February is unlit deliberately: Cambridge's February/March series is offered to India only, so a relocation timed around a March paper has been planned against another country's calendar. Both boards' windows are set out month by month in the IGCSE exam timetable for UAE students, and the IB side in the IB exam timetable for UAE students.

IB dates, not verified here. The IB's own assessment pages could not be confirmed from an automated check, so this article publishes no IB examination date. Secondary sources converge on a late-April-to-May window for the May session and an October-to-November window for the November session, but a date your family rearranges a move around must come from ibo.org or from your child's IB Diploma Programme coordinator. Ask the coordinator for the session your child is registered for and the internal IA, EE and TOK deadlines, and treat those as the fixed points of the move.

The pattern is simple enough to state in one sentence: the earlier in a programme your child is, the more freedom your move has, and a DP2 move in the months before the session is the one case where the right answer is sometimes to delay the family's move or to split it.

Academic Support in the First Term, and What It Should Actually Target

The instinct on arrival is to book a tutor for everything. That is the expensive version. The first term after a relocation has a specific failure pattern, and targeting it is cheaper and works better.

What actually goes wrong is rarely the subject content. It is three other things.

Assessment literacy. An IB student arriving from a school that marked in percentages has to learn to read criterion-based rubrics, in which an MYP task is marked against named criteria with their own level descriptors, and a DP IA is marked against published criteria for that subject. A child who understands the content and not the rubric produces work that looks weaker than their understanding. Two or three sessions on how the criteria work is often the single highest-return intervention of the whole year.

This is the single transferable skill a relocating IB student is usually missing, and it is cheap to fix: two or three sessions reading real rubrics against the child's own marked work. Programme-specific starting points are IB PYP tutoring in Dubai, IB MYP mathematics tutoring in Dubai and IB DP Theory of Knowledge tutoring in Dubai, with the wider picture at IB tutoring in Dubai.

Sequencing gaps, not knowledge gaps. Two IB schools cover the same MYP mathematics content in a different order. A mid-year joiner can arrive having never met a topic the class finished in September and having already done one the class starts in February. That is a diagnostic problem, and a one-off diagnostic session that produces a written list of specific missing topics is worth more than a term of general support.

The compulsory-subject surprise. Arabic, from a standing start, in a class that has been running for years. This is the one that reliably needs sustained help rather than a short intervention.

And one thing that is usually not a problem: the IB framework itself. A student who was doing MYP in Jakarta is doing MYP in Dubai. The inquiry structure, the approaches to learning, the criterion marking — those carry over. Resist paying to re-teach them.

Where a plan is needed, start from the programme your child is actually in: IB PYP tutoring in Dubai for primary-age joiners, IB MYP tutoring in Dubai for the middle years, and IB DP tutoring in Dubai for Diploma students. For the internally assessed components that a transferring DP student is usually most anxious about, IB Extended Essay support in Dubai and IB Internal Assessment support in Dubai are the relevant pages — and both describe teaching, feedback and process coaching on the student's own work, never writing it. Families arriving into the other emirates can start at IB tutoring in Abu Dhabi, where ADEK rather than KHDA is the regulator.

How Tutoring Is Priced and Delivered in Dubai, Said Plainly

Two separate questions get muddled here: what the market charges, and what any given provider actually does. Market first.

Monthly packages visible in the Dubai market run around AED 799 a month for eight online sessions and AED 1,599 to AED 1,799 a month for four two-hour in-home sessions. Bestimate's monthly estimates for a weekly one-hour session run AED 240 to 600 at the budget end, AED 600 to 1,200 in the middle and AED 1,000 to 2,000 or more for specialist exam-year support. Those are market figures from other providers, cited so you can budget against the real range rather than a single number. They are not an IB Gram price list.

The line plots the midpoint of each published range rather than a quote, and the slope is the budgeting point: specialist exam-year support runs at roughly three and a half times a budget tutor, so the decision to buy it belongs in the relocation budget rather than in a panic in week six. The full breakdown sits in IB home tutor fees in Dubai, and the delivery-mode question in home against online IB tutoring in Dubai.

Now ours, with no hedging. For UAE families, IB Gram teaches online, one-to-one, over live video. We do not send tutors to homes anywhere in the UAE. Visiting a family's home is a service we provide in India only. If your relocation plan assumes a tutor arriving at an address in Dubai, we are not the provider for that, and the in-home band above is where to price it.

For a relocating family, the online model happens to fit a problem you have anyway. The weeks around a move are the weeks when a child's address, routine and even country are unstable, and online one-to-one sessions continue across all of that — during the handover at the old school, during temporary accommodation, during a summer spent elsewhere. A tutor tied to a physical address in Dubai cannot start until the family is physically in Dubai, which is usually a month or more after the academic problem starts. The relevant pages are IB online tutoring in Dubai and, for IGCSE students mid-transfer, IGCSE online tutoring in Dubai.

One thing to be clear about regardless of provider. Anyone giving private lessons in the UAE needs the MoHRE private tuition work permit introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, which is granted free of charge for two years and covers categories including registered school teachers, government and private-sector employees, unemployed residents, university students and school students aged 15 to 18. Individuals offering private tutoring without a permit from MoHRE are subject to fines and penalties under the applicable laws; no fine schedule is published, so no amount should be quoted to you. Applications go through MoHRE's own service, 'Issuance of a New Work Permit - Private Tutor Licensing', on mohre.gov.ae.

A permit that costs nothing and lasts two years is not a difficult thing for a legitimate tutor to hold, which is exactly why asking is reasonable. The rules are unpacked in the private tutor work permit in the UAE explained and, for the Dubai-specific layer, KHDA rules for private tutors in Dubai. Ask any tutor you engage whether they hold it. And note that in Abu Dhabi, press reporting of ADEK's professional-ethics rules indicates that school staff are barred from paid private tutoring of students enrolled at their own school, with the MoHRE permit's code of conduct carrying a similar bar — so 'your child's own teacher, privately' is not a route to pursue. Verify the current ADEK policy document before relying on the detail.

Which Emirate You Land In Changes Who Regulates the School

Many relocations to "Dubai" end up in Sharjah or on the Abu Dhabi side of the border, for cost or for work reasons. The IB programme is the same. The regulator is not.

Source: the UAE government's private-schools page on u.ae. Two consequences for an arriving family. First, inspection reports, fee frameworks and mandatory-subject detail are published by the emirate's own regulator, so a Sharjah school's record is not on KHDA's site. Second, in Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah the regulator approves curricula and assessment methods as well as fees, which is a stronger power than inspection alone.

And a point of fairness to the lesser-named emirates: Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain are absent from essentially every tutoring site covering this market. If you are moving to one of them, you will find less published information, not because the schools are worse but because nobody writes about them. Go to the regulator directly.

The programme travels; the paperwork does not. Local starting points are IB tutoring in Abu Dhabi, IB DP tutoring in Abu Dhabi, IB tutoring in Sharjah, IB tutoring in Ajman, IB tutoring in Ras Al Khaimah, IB tutoring in Fujairah and IB tutoring in Umm Al Quwain.

The First Ninety Days: A Realistic Sequence

A compressed version of everything above, as the thing to actually do.

Weeks minus-twelve to minus-eight. Enquire at IB schools that can take your child's exact programme year and subject levels. For a DP transfer, open a direct conversation between the two IB coordinators and get the portfolio and registration position in writing. Ask every shortlisted school for its transport catchment and pick-up times.

Weeks minus-eight to minus-four. Convert the school decision into a housing decision, using pick-up time as the governing constraint. Confirm the academic year start pattern — August or September against April — and establish whether your child gains or loses a term in the transition. For Year 11 students, confirm board, syllabus codes, series and whether existing entries transfer.

Arrival to week four. Get the timetable, the Arabic stream placement and the full internal assessment calendar in writing. Do not buy tutoring yet. You do not know what the problem is.

Weeks four to eight. Now you have real data: first marked work, first rubric feedback, the honest commute. Run a diagnostic on anything that looks weak, insist on a written list of specific topics or criteria rather than a general impression, and buy support against that list only.

Weeks eight to twelve. Review. Sequencing gaps should be closing and assessment literacy should be visibly better. If Arabic was a standing start, it will still be a work in progress — that one is a multi-year subject, not a term's catch-up, and it is the one place where an ongoing commitment is usually justified.

The one instruction that saves the most money is in week four and it is a negative: do not buy tutoring before you know what the problem is. The timing argument is made in full in the best time to start IB tutoring in Dubai.

A final word on what to resist. Relocation makes parents want to buy certainty, and this market will sell it, but no provider can guarantee a grade, a points total or a university place. None of it is deliverable, and the providers offering it are also the ones most likely to be vague about what they actually do. A provider worth engaging will tell you plainly how lessons are delivered, what their tutor's permit status is, what they will not do with your child's assessed work, and what they do not know.

Frequently Asked Questions About Moving to Dubai With IB Children

Can my child continue the same IB programme after moving to Dubai?

Yes, in principle. The IB framework is the same at every IB World School, so a student in PYP, MYP or DP continues the same programme. What has to be confirmed school by school is whether the receiving school can take your child at their exact year, subject combination and Higher or Standard Level split, because an HL class can be full or a particular HL option may not run there. For a Diploma student, the receiving school also has to accept the Internal Assessment progress, the Extended Essay topic and the supervision arrangement. Get all of that in writing before you commit to a move date.

When does the school year start in Dubai?

Most international schools in Dubai run an August or September start, but not all of them do. KHDA's mandatory-subject guidance refers separately to schools whose academic year begins in April, which is the pattern several Indian-curriculum and other schools follow. If your child is moving between an April-start and an August-start system, a term can effectively disappear or repeat, so confirm the receiving school's calendar and the year-group placement explicitly rather than assuming the month. This is also the detail that determines whether a mid-year arrival is a mid-term arrival.

Will my child have to study Arabic in an IB school in Dubai?

Yes. KHDA's mandatory-subjects guidance requires Arabic, Islamic Education and Social or Moral Studies in all Dubai private schools regardless of the licensed international curriculum, and the federal position on u.ae is that private schools must provide Arabic language, social studies and Islamic studies whatever curriculum they otherwise follow. Non-Arab students take Arabic as an additional language, in classes that KHDA requires to be organised separately from first-language Arabic. For a child arriving with no Arabic into a class that has been running for years, this is usually the subject that needs the most sustained support.

Is a mid-DP2 move to Dubai a bad idea?

It is the highest-risk transfer in the whole set, and it is sometimes still the right call. In DP2 the examination registration is live and the internal Internal Assessment, Extended Essay and Theory of Knowledge deadlines are already set in the current school's calendar. Before committing, get written confirmation from both IB Diploma Programme coordinators that the registration and the assessment portfolio transfer cleanly, and get the receiving school's internal deadline calendar. Some families split the move, with one parent relocating first and the student finishing the session in place. That option is worth pricing before you dismiss it.

How do I choose which area of Dubai to live in?

Choose the school first, then the area, then the tenancy. Dubai is a linear city on a small number of arterial roads, and the governing number is the school bus pick-up time rather than the map distance. Ask each shortlisted school's transport office which communities it serves and what time the bus collects from each. A thirty-minute difference in pick-up time is roughly ninety hours across a 180-day school year, which is more hours than most families will ever buy in tutoring. Families who pick a community from a property site and then hunt for schools nearby are the ones who end up commuting.

What exam series will my child sit in the UAE?

For Cambridge qualifications, the June series and the November series. For Pearson Edexcel International GCSE, May/June and November. Cambridge's February/March series is offered to India only, so it is not a route for a candidate sitting in the UAE, and any revision plan built towards a March paper has been built for a different country. Cambridge also allocates every centre to one of six administrative zones and says it cannot accept responsibility for candidates who miss an examination because the wrong zone timetable was used, so confirm your new centre's zone with its examinations officer in writing.

Where do I get reliable IB exam dates?

From ibo.org or from your child's IB Diploma Programme coordinator, and nowhere else. This article publishes no IB examination date because the IB's own assessment pages could not be confirmed through an automated check, and an unverified date is worse than no date when a family is scheduling a relocation around it. Secondary sources circulate windows for the May and November sessions, but they disagree in detail and are revised. Ask your coordinator in writing for the session your child is registered for, the examination window and every internal assessment deadline.

Does IB Gram send a tutor to our home in Dubai?

No. For UAE families IB Gram teaches online, one-to-one, over live video, and that applies in Dubai and in every other emirate. Sending a tutor to a family's home is a service we provide in India only, and we do not offer it at any UAE address. If in-home tutoring is what you want, market rates in Dubai for an in-home one-to-one visit run roughly AED 180 to 500 an hour with travel priced in, and you should approach providers who deliver it. We state this plainly because several providers in this market are vague about how lessons actually reach the student.

Should I arrange tutoring before we arrive in Dubai?

Usually not for subject content, and sometimes yes for continuity. In the first four weeks you do not yet know what the problem is: you have no marked work, no rubric feedback and no honest read on the commute. Buying broad support at that point wastes money on subjects that were never at risk. The exception is a student mid-DP or mid-IGCSE whose work cannot pause during the move, where online sessions are genuinely useful precisely because they continue through temporary accommodation and travel. Diagnose at around week four, then buy against a written list of specific gaps.

What does tutoring cost in Dubai for an IB student?

Market rates in Dubai run roughly AED 45 to 150 an hour for budget or university-student online tutors, AED 150 to 300 for a qualified subject tutor online, AED 180 to 500 for an in-home one-to-one visit with travel included, and AED 200 to 450 or more for an IB, IGCSE or A-Level specialist, with premium named tutors above that. Monthly packages around AED 799 for eight online sessions and AED 1,599 to AED 1,799 for four two-hour in-home sessions are visible in the same market. Those are other providers' published figures, read in October 2026, not an IB Gram price list.

Does a tutor in the UAE need a licence?

Yes. Any individual providing private tuition in the UAE needs the MoHRE private tuition work permit introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023. It is granted free of charge for two years, and eligible categories include teachers registered in government or private schools, government and private-sector employees, unemployed individuals, university students and school students aged 15 to 18. Individuals tutoring without a MoHRE permit are subject to fines and penalties under the applicable laws, though no fine schedule is published. Applications go through MoHRE's private tutor licensing service on mohre.gov.ae. Ask any tutor you engage whether they hold one.

Are school fees in Dubai going up next year?

KHDA confirmed on 22 May 2026 that there will be no increase in school fees for private schools in Dubai for the 2026-27 academic year, under the emirate's second economic incentives package valued at AED 1.5 billion within an AED 2.5 billion total. For a relocation budget that is a useful fixed line, though it covers Dubai only — Abu Dhabi fees are a matter for ADEK, and Sharjah's and Ras Al Khaimah's authorities approve tuition fees in their own emirates. Check the specific school's published fee schedule with its own regulator rather than assuming the Dubai position applies.

We may end up in Sharjah or Abu Dhabi instead. Does that change anything academically?

The IB programme does not change; the regulator does. ADEK supervises the licensing and accreditation of private schools in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, SPEA regulates private education in Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah's Department of Knowledge regulates there, and the Ministry of Education supervises private schools in Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah. Inspection records and fee frameworks are published by each emirate's own regulator, so a Sharjah school's record is not on KHDA's site. In Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah the regulator also approves curricula and assessment methods, not just fees.

Moving to Dubai With IB Children: The Short Version Worth Keeping

Two columns, one instruction: spend the planning effort on the right-hand column, because the left-hand column looks after itself. Area-level starting points for the communities families most often land in are IB tutoring near Dubai Marina, IB MYP tutoring in Arabian Ranches, IB MYP tutoring in Mirdif and IB tutoring near Jumeirah 1 — all delivered online, which is why the address does not change the tutor you get.

Further reading in this series: the Arabic guide for expatriate IGCSE students covers the compulsory-subject question in depth, and switching from CBSE to IB in Dubai is the right starting point if your child is moving between curricula rather than between IB schools.

Families still choosing a community should read the best areas in Dubai for IB families before signing a tenancy, parents new to the middle years will want IB MYP explained for Dubai parents, and anyone arriving in the weeks around a results release should know what IB results day in the UAE actually involves.

Figures were read in October 2026 and every regulatory statement is attributed to the authority that published it. IB Gram holds no KHDA, ADEK, SPEA, Ministry of Education, Cambridge, Pearson or IB approval, accreditation or partnership, and names no school as a client or endorser. Verify anything you are about to act on with the relevant authority or with your child's school before you commit.