IB and IGCSE tutor jobs in the UAE

A very large majority of schoolchildren in the UAE attend private schools, and those schools run a wide spread of international curricula — British, IB, American, Indian and others — often several within a few kilometres of each other. For an IB or IGCSE specialist that density is rare and valuable: the students who need you are concentrated rather than scattered.

Private tutoring is also a normal, openly discussed part of how UAE families support their children's schooling, rather than something arranged quietly. Families are generally direct about what they want, specific about the board and level, and willing to pay for a tutor who clearly knows the syllabus.

The market is correspondingly demanding. Parents compare tutors, ask about qualifications and examiner experience directly, and expect a demo class to demonstrate real command. If you have genuine depth in a Higher Level Diploma subject or an IGCSE science, this is among the better places in the world to be tutoring.

• Very high concentration of IB and British-curriculum schools
• Private tutoring is an established, openly used norm
• Families are specific about board, level and exam series
• No joining fee, no subscription, no exclusivity

You set your own fee in AED and we publish it unchanged; families see it before booking the demo. UAE rates are generally well above Indian rates for equivalent work, and the premium is highest for Diploma Higher Level subjects and for in-person teaching in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Our share depends only on the mode. Home tuition is split 50-50 for the first month with each new student and is then 100% yours for as long as you keep teaching them. Online classes are a flat 70/30 in your favour, every month, with no reduced first month.

We invoice and collect from the family and pay you monthly on the 1st, with an itemised statement showing every student, class, fee and split. You never invoice a family and you never chase a late payment.

• Rates peak in the run-up to the May session and the IGCSE May/June series
• Two subjects for one student is one engagement at your combined fee
• Short intensive engagements pay better online; long ones pay better at home
• Classes you cancel are not billed to the family, so they are not paid

This needs saying plainly, because it is the part applicants most often get wrong. Private tutoring in the UAE is a regulated activity. Schools are overseen by authorities such as KHDA in Dubai and ADEK in Abu Dhabi, and there have been repeated official campaigns about unlicensed private tutoring. Whether you personally need a freelance permit, a work permit, or written permission from an existing sponsor depends on your visa status and your emirate.

IB Gram is a matching platform. We introduce students to tutors, we collect fees and we pay you — we are not your employer and we do not sponsor your visa or grant you the right to work. Establishing that you may lawfully accept paid tutoring work is your responsibility, and we ask you to confirm it before you take a student.

If you are a teacher already employed by a UAE school, check your own contract and your school's policy carefully before you start. Many schools restrict or prohibit private tutoring outright, and some prohibit tutoring any student from their own school specifically. That second restriction is near-universal and worth assuming applies to you.

If you are on a dependent or spouse visa, a freelance permit route generally exists but the detail varies. If you are outside the UAE and teaching UAE students online, the relevant rules are usually those of the country you are physically in. None of this is difficult to resolve, but it is much easier to resolve before you have a family waiting for a first class.

• Private tutoring in the UAE is regulated — permits are a real requirement, not a formality
• IB Gram is a matching platform, not your employer or visa sponsor
• Employed teachers: check your contract; tutoring your own school's students is usually barred
• Dependent or spouse visa holders: a freelance permit route generally exists
• Teaching UAE students from abroad: your own country's rules normally apply

A good share of the UAE students we place are taught online by tutors who are not in the Emirates at all, most often from India, and the time difference is the reason it works so well. The UAE is an hour and a half behind India, so a Dubai student's 5pm after-school slot falls at 6.30pm in India — squarely inside a normal Indian tutoring evening.

For tutors in the UK the overlap also works, in the other direction: a UAE after-school slot of 4pm to 8pm falls at roughly noon to 4pm UK time in winter, which suits anyone whose availability is in the working day rather than the evening.

If you teach UAE students from abroad, the work-authorisation question is generally governed by where you are physically sitting rather than by UAE rules, but confirm your own position. What does apply regardless is everything else: fees are set in AED, we collect from the family, and you are paid on the 1st of the following month with the same itemised statement.

• UAE is 1.5 hours behind India — a Dubai 5pm slot is 6.30pm IST
• UAE after-school slots fall in the UK working day in winter
• From abroad, your own country's work rules normally govern, not the UAE's
• Fees are still set and collected in AED, with the same payout terms