Enquiries from families in Dubai and across the Gulf are rising sharply, as more parents look for full-time tutors to deliver immediate homeschooling support and restore stability
War has come close to Dubai. Schools have moved online, the spring term has been cut short, exams have been deferred, and thousands of families have left. Enquiries for urgent educational support are rising rapidly as families try to stabilise their children’s learning.
Right now, we are working with a significant number of families from Dubai and across the Gulf, some still in the region, others who have relocated or are homeschooling for the first time. Many have come to us needing immediate structure, continuity, and reassurance. We have helped many families through disruption before, from global school closures to complex relocations, and we are doing so again now.
What is happening in Dubai's schools
UAE authorities mandated a nationwide switch to distance learning in the spring term, subsequently extended and placed under weekly review, with spring break itself brought forward from its planned dates. Across the region, exam boards and school leaders have been coordinating to manage the implications for IGCSE, A Level, and International Baccalaureate cohorts.
Headteachers across Dubai have spoken openly of their concerns: about the adequacy of remote learning for younger children, about experienced staff who have left and may not return, about the difficulty of sustaining school community across a digital connection, and about what prolonged uncertainty does to the concentration and emotional resilience of adolescents at critical academic junctures.
Both the families choosing to remain in the region and those who have temporarily relocated elsewhere are facing a stop-start academic year. The children experiencing it still have syllabuses to complete, confidence to sustain, and futures that don’t pause while the wider situation resolves itself.
Why remote learning, however well-designed, is not enough
Schools across Dubai have responded to the disruption with commendable speed, many drawing on infrastructure built during the pandemic to transition online efficiently. However, remote schooling, however competently delivered, places the coordination burden on the family. It asks children to self-regulate in a home environment that may itself carry anxiety and disrupted routine.
It offers class teachers who, however dedicated, are simultaneously responsible for twenty or thirty other pupils — many of whom carry their own pressures — and who cannot respond, in real time, to the particular way one child has lost the thread of an argument in a history essay, or why another is resistant to opening a mathematics textbook that afternoon.
The families who emerged from the pandemic years in the strongest academic and emotional position were, in many cases, those who had access to consistent, skilled, and attentive one-to-one educational support. We are seeing the same pattern again now.
Families are seeking full-time tutors for homeschooling
Tutors International places exceptional educators — graduates of the world's finest universities, experienced in the full breadth of British, IB, and international curricula — within the family home or very close by, on a full-time basis.
It is, by design, a very different proposition from tutoring as most people understand it, and the families we are working with right now are already seeing the difference.
A Tutors International tutor does not arrive for two hours on a Tuesday and Thursday. They become part of the fabric of family life. Where there are siblings, one tutor works across all of them, moving between year groups, curricula, and needs throughout the day, so every child in the household receives expert, focused attention.
Full-time tutoring gives families confidence that their child’s education will not only continue, but remain of the highest standard despite the disruption.
The tutor knows which topics generate genuine enthusiasm and which produce avoidance. They understand how a difficult morning affects the afternoon's capacity for abstract thought. They extend a lesson into a conversation, a conversation into a project, and a project into the kind of deep, lasting learning that examinations reward and universities recognise.
Whether a child follows the British National Curriculum, is preparing for IGCSEs or A Levels, or is working towards the IB Diploma or IB Career-related Programme, their programme of study continues. It is delivered to the same standard, adapted to their circumstances, and deepened by the kind of experiential and project-based learning that a one-to-one relationship makes genuinely possible.
“Our tutors identify the specific areas in which a child requires support and address them directly, enabling students to make real progress even in the most challenging situations.” – Adam Caller, Founder, Tutors International
Talk to us today
We are currently supporting a growing number of families displaced or disrupted by the conflict, and enquiries continue to rise. For some, the need is immediate. For others, it is about putting the right structure in place before further disruption sets in.
Tell us where your family is, what curriculum your child follows, and what concerns you most right now. We will listen carefully, give you honest guidance, and begin the search for the right tutor at whatever pace suits you.
The sooner you reach out, the sooner your child has the consistency and expert support they need. We’re here to make sure their education continues calmly and confidently.
