IB and IGCSE tutors for Dubai Investments Park families

The bands below come from published rate cards read in October 2026. The tier bands themselves are sourced: budget online tutors from around AED 45 to 150, qualified subject tutors online at AED 150 to 300, in-home one-to-one visits at AED 180 to 500 including travel, IB and IGCSE specialists at AED 200 to 450 or more, and premium named tutors above that, with one provider publishing AED 650. Monthly packages advertised in the market include AED 799 for eight online sessions and AED 1,599 to 1,799 for four two-hour in-home sessions.

What the table does is map those sourced tier bands onto programme levels, which is an interpretation rather than a separate measurement, and it is labelled as such. The logic is straightforward: the level determines how much subject depth the hour requires, and subject depth is what moves a tutor from the qualified band into the specialist band. A Year 7 MYP hour and a Diploma Higher Level hour are not the same job, and no published rate card acknowledges that, which is why parents comparing quotes end up confused.

Read the table as a sanity check rather than a price list. If a quote for Higher Level Chemistry comes in at AED 90 an hour, the question is what subject depth is being supplied at that price. If it comes in at AED 700, the question is what the premium buys beyond the teaching. Both questions are reasonable to ask out loud. IB Gram quotes after a consultation and a trial lesson, with the terms in writing, because the right arrangement for a six-week push is not the right arrangement for a two-year plan.

No family decides on tutoring in isolation. It is decided against a school fee already paid, and in Dubai that fee is a very large number. The emirate's private sector carried 387,441 students across 227 schools in 2024-25, and in May 2026 the regulator confirmed there would be no increase in private school fees for the 2026-27 academic year, under Dubai's second economic incentives package. For a household in this district, many of whom moved here on exactly that arithmetic, the freeze is the single most useful piece of budgeting news of the year.

The table sets tutoring into that context using published monthly estimates rather than our own figures. The pattern it reveals is worth noticing: a weekly budget-tier arrangement is a small fraction of a school fee, while a specialist exam-year arrangement across two subjects is not. The decision point is usually not whether to tutor but at what tier, and families frequently discover that one subject supported properly costs less than three supported thinly and does considerably more.

Two further costs deserve a line in any model. Private candidate examination entry fees are a real item for any student entering a paper outside their school's entry, and they are set by the board rather than by a tutor. And the two-year Diploma is a compound commitment: two subjects at two sessions a week across twenty-four months is a number most families have never actually added up. Adding it up before DP1 changes the plan; adding it up in DP2 changes nothing except the mood.

A cheaper hour is not a worse hour in every respect; it is a different trade. A group class at AED 110 per student buys breadth, peers and a timetable, and it costs you the share of attention that your child specifically needs. A university-student tutor at AED 90 buys enthusiasm, recent experience of the exam and genuine patience, and it costs you depth at Higher Level, where the gap between having passed a subject and being able to teach it is widest. Neither is a scandal. Both become one if nobody names the trade.

The column worth reading is the third. A one-to-one hour gives your child the whole hour, which sounds obvious and is in fact the entire product. In a group of four, each student gets a quarter of the questioning and all of the content, which is excellent value for revision breadth and poor value for a specific recurring error. In a centre class of twelve, the content is delivered well and the individual diagnosis does not happen at all, which is also true of the school classroom the child has just left.

The fourth column is what nobody tells you. Group classes cannot work on your child's own marked script. Budget tutors frequently cannot teach the Higher Level extension topics. Premium brand tutors can, and you are also paying for the brand. In-home visits put somebody in the room, and in this corridor they also put between forty and ninety minutes of driving into the arrangement, which is either in the fee or in the narrowness of who is available. Choose the trade deliberately rather than by price alone.

A published hourly rate answers less than it appears to. Four questions decide what you actually pay, and none of them is usually on the page you booked from. Is marking between sessions inside the hour or extra? What happens to a lesson cancelled inside twenty-four hours, and does the answer differ depending on who cancels? Are materials included, and if so whose materials are they? And does the rate change in the term before the exam session, which several providers quietly do.

Two more are specific to this market. Ask whether the quoted figure includes VAT, and get the answer in writing. The tax treatment of tuition fees is a matter for the Federal Tax Authority rather than for anybody selling tutoring, so the only honest statement a provider can make is whether their own quoted price is inclusive. And ask what happens to unused sessions in a monthly package at month end, because a package advertised at AED 799 for eight sessions is a different proposition if the eighth expires.

The last question is about people rather than money. Who exactly is teaching, and will it be the same person every week? Several platforms in this market match to a pool rather than to a person, which means the tutor who knows your child's recurring error in week two is not the one in week five. Ask for the individual's name, what they have taught and at what level, and whether they hold the MoHRE private tuition work permit, which is free, valid for two years and therefore reasonable to require.

This is the most common real question in this district and the one most pages avoid, because answering it honestly means telling some families that the subject they are worried about is not the subject to buy. The rule that works is spillover. Spend the hour where the gain transfers to other subjects, which in most households means written English or Mathematics, even when a third subject has the lower grade on the report.

Written English spills into everything, because every other subject is assessed through it. A student who writes compressed procedural answers loses marks in Biology, Economics, Geography and History simultaneously, and fixing the writing moves all four. Mathematics spills into Physics and Chemistry and into the quantitative parts of Economics and Business. Those two are the high-leverage choices, and a single weekly hour on either will usually show up in more than one subject by the second term.

The exception is a hard deadline. If an Internal Assessment is due in six weeks and the draft is weak, that block outranks the spillover argument, because the marks are concentrated, published and about to be locked in. After the deadline, go back to the spillover rule. The other exception is a genuine content hole, as opposed to a weak grade: a student who has never been taught two units cannot technique their way through them, and that gap needs closing before anything else is worth buying.

One more test is worth applying before you commit the hour. Ask your child which subject they avoid doing homework for. That answer is frequently different from the lowest grade on the report, and it is usually more diagnostic, because avoidance tracks the subject where the student has no idea what a good answer looks like. An hour spent making that visible, with a marked script on screen and the mark scheme beside it, tends to change behaviour in a way that an hour of extra content does not.

Green Community households are the most settled in the district, often long-term residents with children who have been at the same school for years, and frequently with an IB continuum school inside the community. Their enquiries are about choice and process rather than remediation: whether Higher Level Chemistry is the right call for a medicine application, whether the Extended Essay topic will sustain four thousand words, whether Maths Analysis and Approaches or Applications and Interpretation is the better route for a given degree.

The DIP residential blocks and Discovery Gardens are a different population: shorter tenancies, tighter budgets, longer school runs and a higher share of mid-course arrivals from India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Egypt. Their enquiries concentrate on one or two subjects, a single weekly hour, and value for money, and they often come with a specific, useful piece of evidence attached, because these are families who have already read the report carefully.

The third group is the Jebel Ali and Dubai South working households, where the free zone and airport shift patterns push the family evening later than the Dubai average. The constraint there is simply time of day. An arrangement that requires a lesson before six in the evening does not survive contact with a shift rota, and a tutor who has to drive cannot absorb a slot after seven. Online delivery solves a scheduling problem here rather than a preference.

None of these three groups is better served by a generic page. What they share is a preference for being told the trade-off rather than being sold the premium option, which is why this page leads with sourced bands and with what each price point gives up. The enquiry that works best from any of them is short and concrete: the school, the year, the board, the slot that exists, the budget, and one marked piece of work.

There is no price at which a grade becomes a purchasable item, and a page that leads with rates owes you that sentence explicitly. This site publishes no promise about any outcome, no satisfaction percentage, no improvement figure and no star rating. Competing pages in this market publish several of each, including two separate aggregate ratings on the same page with different numbers, and one that shows a rating from twenty reviews next to a claim of several thousand enrolled students. Self-asserted review markup is against Google's own structured-data policy and, as a commercial representation in the UAE, a consumer-protection exposure.

Nor can money buy assessed work legitimately. At least one page ranking for these searches sells completed Internal Assessments. Under IB rules submitting work that is not your own is malpractice, the school is obliged to report it, and the consequence falls on the candidate, who can lose the subject or the whole Diploma. The seller keeps the fee. A tutor may teach research skills, read criteria aloud, challenge a topic, question a draft and point out an unsupported conclusion. A tutor may not supply the text.

And money cannot buy accreditation we do not hold. IB Gram is an independent tutor-matching platform. It holds no approval from KHDA, ADEK, SPEA, the Ministry of Education, the IB, Cambridge or Pearson, operates no premises in the UAE, and does not send tutors to UAE homes. A tutoring business with premises and staff in Dubai needs a KHDA Educational Services Permit for a training institute, which is a specific thing issued to specific entities, and claiming it without holding it is the single most dangerous sentence available to a page like this one.

Send four things and the first conversation becomes useful immediately: the school, the year group, the board and syllabus code, and one marked piece of work. If the question is budget rather than diagnosis, say so and say what the budget is; it is a more productive opening than a general enquiry, because the honest advice at one hour a week is different from the advice at three, and nobody is served by pretending otherwise.

From there we identify a specialist at the right level who is free in your slot, and arrange a consultation and a trial lesson before any block is booked, with the terms written down at that point. If the match is wrong after a lesson or two, say so and we change it. If nobody suitable is free in your slot, we say that instead of offering a quiet near-match, which happens most often for narrow Higher Level combinations close to the May session and for the mandatory Arabic and Islamic Education streams.

One practical note on the evening. Because lessons are delivered one-to-one over live video, a slot at half past seven is as workable as one at half past four, and two subjects or two children can take consecutive slots in a single evening without a second journey for anybody. In a district where shift patterns and long school runs are the norm, that flexibility is usually worth more than a small difference in the hourly figure, and it is the reason we do not run an in-home service here.