IGCSE Home Tutor in Al Khan

An IGCSE home tutor in Al Khan, as the phrase is used here, is one-to-one teaching for one child on the specification that child is entered for. IB Gram provides that over live video to Sharjah families and makes no home visits anywhere in the UAE; in-home tuition is a service we run only in India. The question this page answers is not what an hour costs but what that hour costs relative to the education bills a household is already carrying.

Those bills are large and mostly fixed. School fees are the biggest and are set by the school within a regulatory framework rather than negotiated by a parent. Examination entry fees arrive through the school and are frequently bundled into a term's invoice without a parent ever seeing the per-subject figure. Transport, uniform and activity costs sit alongside them. Against that background, tutoring is the one discretionary line, which is why it tends to be either skipped entirely or bought in an expensive hurry.

The useful reframing is to separate the small purchases from the large ones. Three diagnostic sessions at published qualified rates of roughly AED 150 to 300 an hour is a modest number against a term of fees, and it produces a written list of what is actually going wrong. A year of weekly specialist sessions at AED 200 to AED 450 and above is a serious commitment that deserves the same scrutiny as a school choice. Treating those two as the same kind of decision is how families overspend.

IB Gram publishes no tariff on these pages, because the right figure depends on subject scarcity, tier and session length and is quoted after a free trial lesson. Every dirham figure here belongs to the named provider or rate survey that published it, read in October 2026.

The table below is the piece of analysis this market does not publish: tutoring set beside the other costs of educating the same child, in dirhams, over comparable periods. It is built from published figures and bands rather than from quotations, and the point is proportion rather than precision.

Two things usually surprise families who build their own version. The first is how small a well-targeted diagnostic block looks next to a term of fees — a few hundred dirhams against several thousand. The second is how quickly weekly specialist sessions across two years approach the scale of a term's fees, which is the point at which a family should want evidence rather than reassurance.

The third observation is about examination entries, which are the most invisible line in the table. Most parents cannot say what their child's entries cost, because they arrive bundled. Asking the examinations officer for the per-subject entry fee is worth doing once, because it also makes the cost of a resit concrete and therefore makes the tier conversation in Year 10 feel as consequential as it actually is.

Fill the table in with your own school's numbers. The exercise takes twenty minutes and it changes spending decisions more reliably than any amount of comparison shopping between tutors.

A note on what the table deliberately leaves out. It contains no IB Gram price, because the right figure depends on subject scarcity, tier and session length and is quoted after a free trial lesson rather than published as a tariff. It also contains no school fee figure, because fees vary enormously between schools within a few kilometres of this district and quoting a single number would be misleading rather than helpful. Both columns are yours to fill in from documents you already hold.

Fee regulation is not a detail for a tutoring page; it is the context in which a family decides whether a third bill is affordable. The frameworks differ by emirate and they are not symmetrical.

In Sharjah, the Sharjah Private Education Authority regulates private education in the emirate and approves tuition fees, curricula, programmes, courses, activities and assessment methods. Ras Al Khaimah's Department of Knowledge operates on the same model. That is a broader remit than inspection: fee levels and curriculum approval both sit with the emirate authority rather than with the school alone.

In Dubai, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority is responsible for enhancing and overseeing the quality of private education. It confirmed on 22 May 2026 that there would be no increase in school fees for private schools in the emirate for the 2026-27 academic year, under Dubai's second economic incentives package valued at AED 1.5 billion within a AED 2.5 billion total. For a Sharjah family with children at a Dubai school, that is directly relevant to what the household can afford elsewhere.

The scale of the market matters too, because it is what sets the local supply of tutors. Dubai's private school sector served 387,441 students across 227 private schools in 2024-25, offering seventeen different curricula, and its 2026-27 intake adds seven new private schools creating 16,846 new places. A market that size is why the online tutoring pool is deep, and why a family on the Sharjah side of the boundary can access it at the same rates as one inside Dubai.

Ask most parents what their child's IGCSE entries cost and the answer is a shrug, because the figure arrives inside a school invoice. That invisibility has a consequence: the cost of getting an entry decision wrong is also invisible, and so the decisions that generate resits are made with no price attached.

The sequence is worth seeing in cost terms. Entries are submitted by the school's examinations officer months before the papers, with a fee per subject. A tier that caps a grade below what a sixth form or an equivalency requirement needs leads to a November entry, which means another fee, a term of tutoring and a student still working on a subject the cohort has finished. A review of marking, requested through the centre within a short window after results, carries its own fee and its own risk.

Against all of that, a three-session evidence block in Year 10 that supports a tier conversation is a small, early purchase with an unusually clear return. It is also the purchase least often made, because in Year 10 nothing feels urgent and no bill has yet arrived.

For Pearson Edexcel International GCSE, the November window has run from late October into November, with the November 2026 final timetable finishing on 19 November 2026 and results reaching students in January; November 2025 results reached students on 22 January 2026. June 2026 results reached centres on 19 August 2026 and students on 20 August 2026. Those past dates are cited because they are checkable; confirm current timings against the official timetable and ask your school whether it enters November candidates at all.

Most households here are not choosing between everything and nothing; they are choosing what to keep. So the useful advice is an explicit cutting order rather than an argument that tutoring is valuable.

Cut, in this order. Anything bought before marked work was read, because it is a guess. Sessions in a subject the student dislikes but passes, which is motivation rather than teaching. Sessions spread thinly across three or four subjects, which produce no visible movement in any. Any arrangement whose sessions are repeatedly missed because the hour does not suit the commute, since those are being paid for twice. And finally, length: a term bought where the evidence supported three sessions.

Keep, in this order. The diagnostic block, because without it everything else is guesswork. Technique work in the subject nearest a grade boundary, where a small intervention converts into a grade. English Language technique, because planning and structure transfer to five other subjects at once. And the tier-evidence block if entries are still open, because the ceiling matters more than any topic.

The table below sets that out as a decision list. It is deliberately blunt, because a fixed budget rewards bluntness more than it rewards a balanced view in which everything has some merit.

One more cut worth naming, because families resist it. A block that is not working should be ended rather than extended, even when the tutor is likeable and the student has grown comfortable. Comfort is a real benefit and it is not what the fee was for. Agreeing the stopping condition at the outset makes that decision administrative rather than personal, which is the only way it reliably gets made.

Before a third bill is added, there is a ladder of cheaper options that families on this corridor consistently under-use. Ranked by cost, starting at nothing.

Free, from the school: the marked script rather than the grade sheet, read with four labels — blank, attempted and abandoned, partially credited, completed but wrong. The subject teacher's answer to which three topics they would prioritise, a question they are rarely asked and answer well. Any departmental revision clinic, which on both sides of this boundary is often under-attended purely because families do not know it exists. And the code, tier, study-leave date and November entry deadline in writing from the examinations officer.

Free, from the boards: Cambridge and Pearson publish specification documents, support material and the official timetables on their own sites, including the zone-specific Cambridge timetable a centre must use. We link those rather than reproducing them, because the material belongs to the boards and copying it is a copyright problem. Anybody offering a download library of mark schemes is advertising that problem rather than a service.

Low cost: a group revision class at a local centre, which retells a specification with structure at the lowest supervised rate available and is a reasonable purchase for a student who has fallen behind across a whole subject. It cannot examine your child's own script, so it will not find an error pattern, and on this corridor it also adds a round trip at the worst hour of the day. After all of that, a three-session diagnostic block is the first thing worth paying a one-to-one rate for.

A conspicuously low rate sometimes means a regulatory question has not been asked, and asking it costs nothing. The private tuition work permit was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023 and is issued through the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation. It is granted free of charge for two years. Eligible applicants include teachers registered in government or private schools, government and private-sector employees, unemployed individuals, university students and school students aged fifteen to eighteen. Individuals tutoring without one are subject to fines and penalties under the applicable laws, and since no fine schedule is published, any page quoting an amount has invented it.

The permit also carries a code of conduct that bars serving students affiliated with the tutor's own school, which matters in a district where a family and a teacher may well live in the same tower. The school regulator is a separate matter: private schools in Sharjah answer to the Sharjah Private Education Authority and Dubai's to the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, and no tutoring provider, including IB Gram, holds approval, accreditation or a licence from either.

Four questions are worth asking any provider before money moves. What happens to a missed session, which on this corridor will happen. What the smallest useful purchase is, and whether it is offered without an argument. What evidence would justify stopping, agreed in advance. And what the provider will refuse to do with coursework, where a subject has it.

And the claims to refuse outright: a guarantee of a grade, any claimed regulator or board approval, any school described as a partner or client, any satisfaction figure or rating without the number, date and method behind it, and any offer to complete assessed work. We make none of them, publish no ratings, and do not reproduce or supply board syllabus documents, past papers, mark schemes or grade-boundary tables.