IB and IGCSE tutors for Al Mamsha families

No competitor page in the ten query clusters researched for this project discloses a coverage limit. Several conceal non-UAE delivery behind a phone number from another country. We think the disclosure is worth more than the illusion of unlimited supply, because a parent who knows there is a ten-day wait for Physics at Higher Level can plan around it, and a parent being managed cannot. The table below sets out what we can actually cover, how fast, and what happens when we cannot.

Read the fallback column rather than the availability column. Every provider in this market can produce a tutor eventually; the question is what that tutor actually is. Our fallback for a scarce combination is a specialist from our wider pool, which is centred on India and includes tutors who have taught these syllabuses to international cohorts for years. Delivery is unchanged because it was always one-to-one over live video, and the time zone usually helps rather than hinders a Gulf evening slot.

The one genuine difference with a non-UAE specialist is institutional familiarity. A tutor who has worked with Sharjah schools knows how internal coursework deadlines tend to fall and what a particular school's mock timetable looks like. A tutor from the wider pool learns that from the student's own documents in the first session, which costs perhaps twenty minutes once. We would rather name that cost than pretend it does not exist.

Timing changes everything in this table. In October, almost every combination is coverable within a week. In the eight weeks before a written series, the scarce rows get scarcer and the premium rates in the market rise, which is visible in the published figures. For a household in this district that expects to need Higher Level support, the practical advice is to secure it in the autumn term.

This is the most consequential subject decision in the Diploma and the one most often made on the basis of which sounds easier. The two courses are not a harder and an easier version of the same thing. They assess different mathematics with different tools, and they are received differently by university admissions offices, which is the part that matters years after the choice is made.

Analysis and Approaches is the proof-and-algebra route. It rewards algebraic manipulation, formal reasoning and, at Higher Level, the ability to sustain an unfamiliar extended investigation in Paper 3. Applications and Interpretation is the modelling-and-statistics route, with technology use explicitly assessed, which means a student who avoids their calculator's statistical functions loses marks they never attempted. Neither is soft. Students who choose Applications expecting an easy ride frequently do worse than they would have done on Analysis.

The admissions consequence is where families need to be careful, and also where this page will not overstate what it knows. Engineering, mathematics, physics and many computer science programmes commonly expect the Analysis route at Higher Level, and some state it explicitly. Economics and business programmes vary. Health sciences vary more. The only reliable method is to read the entry requirements of the specific universities and programmes your child is likely to apply to, including the UAE institutions, and to do that in DP1 rather than DP2.

What we can do is tell you which route the student's own attainment points to. A student with strong arithmetic reasoning and weak algebraic manipulation is usually better served by Applications; one with the reverse profile by Analysis. Changing route after DP1 has started is possible in some schools and disruptive in all of them, so the honest moment to get this right is subject selection, before either course has begun.

Nobody publishes this as a reference table, and students lose marks to it every year. Assessed components carry limits, and the consequences of exceeding them range from an examiner stopping at the limit to a criterion being capped. Students who write to the limit from the first draft produce tighter work than students who write freely and then cut, because cutting removes evidence rather than padding.

The limits also shape how supervision time should be used. A 4,000-word Extended Essay with a research question that cannot be answered in 4,000 words is not a writing problem; it is a question problem, and it is fixable in one session at the start and almost unfixable at the end. The most valuable thing a supervisor does is narrow the question until the word limit becomes sufficient rather than restrictive.

A caution on this table. Component requirements are set by the boards and are revised between syllabus cycles, so treat the figures below as a prompt to check rather than as a substitute for checking. The authoritative source is the current subject guide or specification your child's school is working to, which the school holds. We reference official material and work from what the student legitimately has rather than redistributing board documents.

The practical habit worth building is that the student records the limit at the top of their own draft and tracks against it from the beginning. It sounds trivial. It is the difference between a final week spent refining an argument and a final week spent deleting one.

Only one competitor page in the entire research set touches licensing, in a single subheading, and it appears to rank partly on that alone. The position is clear and worth knowing. Private tutoring in the UAE is regulated by permit: the MoHRE private tutor work permit was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, and the permit is granted free of charge for two years. Anyone providing private tutoring without a permit from MoHRE is subject to fines and penalties outlined in the applicable laws.

The eligibility list is broader than parents expect. It includes teachers registered in government or private schools, employees in the government and private sectors, unemployed individuals, university students, and school students aged 15 to 18. MoHRE's own service page is titled Issuance of a New Work Permit - Private Tutor Licensing, lists no fees and a two-working-day completion time, and is applied for through the MoHRE smart app, website and e-services system. That is the official route to point anyone at.

Two cautions follow. First, no fine schedule is published. Khaleej Times reported that the ministry did not specify the fine amounts or detail the penalties, and a figure circulating online could not be verified, so treat any specific amount you read as unsourced. Second, a school teacher tutoring their own enrolled students is a separate issue: Abu Dhabi's regulator has professional-ethics rules barring school staff from paid private tutoring of students at their own school, and the permit carries a code of conduct that also addresses this. Never seek out your child's own teacher privately.

A tutoring operation with premises and staff is a different legal animal from an individual tutor and needs a KHDA Educational Services Permit in Dubai. IB Gram holds no permit, approval, accreditation or licence from KHDA, SPEA, ADEK, MoHRE, the Ministry of Education, the IB, Cambridge or Pearson, and says so plainly. Any page claiming such status for a tutoring platform should be read sceptically.

Published UAE rates read in October 2026 show a wide spread, and the spread is explained by who is teaching rather than by what is taught. A budget online tutor sits at AED 45-150, a qualified subject tutor at AED 150-300, an IB or IGCSE specialist at AED 200-450 and above, and a premium named or examining-experienced tutor at AED 500-650 and above. In-home provision runs AED 180-500 because the rate absorbs travel. Those are market figures from the sources named, not an IB Gram price list.

Scarcity moves the number along that scale in a predictable way. The subjects at the bottom of the coverage table - Physics at Higher Level, quantitative Economics, Computer Science, Theory of Knowledge - price towards the specialist and premium bands, and they price highest in the eight weeks before a series when demand concentrates. The subjects at the top of the coverage table price towards the qualified-tutor band all year, because supply is deep.

The efficient response to that is not to pay the premium for longer, it is to pay it for less time on the right thing. A scarce specialist used for a four-to-eight-session block on one identified component, with the school and independent work covering everything else, costs a fraction of a year-long weekly commitment and usually produces the same mark movement. This is the single most useful planning idea on the page for a household in this district.

IB Gram does not publish a fixed rate card here, because the figure depends on subject, level and the balance of teaching to supervision. A short consultation gives you the band before you commit, and if the honest recommendation is a short block rather than a year, that is what we will say.

This page owes Al Mamsha a straight answer to that, because the usual argument against in-home tutoring does not apply here. In an inland villa community the case is easy: the drive is long, the traffic is bad, and a third of the hourly rate is travel. In a dense walkable district beside University City, a competent tutor genuinely could be in your living room in six minutes with no travel premium worth mentioning. So the honest case has to be made on something else.

It is made on the pool. The question is not whether somebody nearby can teach mathematics - several people certainly can. The question is whether the person who specialises in Physics at Higher Level, is free at 18:30 on a Tuesday, and lives within walking distance of this specific address exists. For most scarce combinations, they do not, and the family ends up choosing between proximity and specialism. Online delivery removes that choice, because the pool is national rather than local.

There are cases where the local option is better and we will say so. A primary-age child who needs attention managed, a student with a specific need that benefits from physical presence, a household with no reliable connection, or a family whose preference is simply for an adult in the room: for those, a nearby in-home tutor at the published AED 180-500 band is a reasonable choice, and it is especially reasonable in a district where the travel component of that rate should be minimal. Negotiate accordingly.

To be unambiguous: IB Gram does not run home visits in the UAE, and nothing on this page should be read as an offer to send anyone to a Sharjah address. Home visiting is a service we offer only in India. What we provide here is one-to-one tuition over live video, with a shared screen and a board saved after each session, matched by subject and level rather than by postcode.

Because so many requests from this district are for Extended Essay and Internal Assessment supervision, the boundary needs stating without softening. Assessed coursework must be the student's own work and the student signs a declaration confirming it. One of the pages competing for these searches sells finished Internal Assessments at a published price. Buying one is malpractice under IB rules and the consequence falls on the candidate rather than the seller, which is sufficient reason to rule that provider out entirely.

Legitimate supervision is specific. A tutor can teach the underlying content, translate each assessment criterion into plain language, help narrow a research question until it is answerable inside the word limit, challenge whether a claim in a draft is actually supported by the evidence, point out that a data set carries no uncertainty treatment, and read a draft against the published criteria and name the weak criterion and why. For a scarce discipline, that explanation is often the entire value of the engagement.

What a tutor must not do is author any part of the submission - not a paragraph, not a methodology, not a conclusion, not a results set. We state this at the start of every supervision block and we state that anything the student did not write has to come out before submission. We also do not reproduce or supply board syllabus documents, past papers, mark schemes or grade-boundary tables; we cite the official source and work from material the student legitimately holds through school.

There is a practical reason this matters beyond compliance. A student whose sections were written for them learns nothing about criterion literacy, which is the same skill that lifts their written papers. Supervision done properly transfers to the rest of the Diploma. A finished document transfers nothing and risks the whole candidature.

Send the subject, the level, the board and the specific component if you already know it, which families in this district usually do. Add two recent pieces of marked work. From those we can tell you whether the combination is one we cover immediately, one with a short wait, or one that needs the wider pool, and we will say which before you commit to anything rather than after.

Then we match a specialist and run an introductory session at no charge - one per family, about thirty minutes, with the student present. For a scarce subject this half hour does a specific job: it checks that the tutor really handles the component you are buying them for, which a profile cannot demonstrate. If the match is wrong we change it rather than suggest giving it another week.

The timing advice for this district is unusually concrete. If you expect to need Higher Level support at any point in the academic year, secure the slot in the autumn term. Scarce specialists fill their calendars, and a slot that is unavailable in February cannot be created in February at any price. The published premium bands rise in exactly the weeks when families start looking, which is the market telling you the same thing.

If no UAE-based specialist is free we offer one from our wider pool, centred on India, including tutors who have taught these syllabuses to international cohorts for years. Delivery is unchanged because it was always online. The one real difference is familiarity with your school's internal deadlines, which the tutor takes from the student's own documents in the first session, and we will name that rather than gloss it.