We are on a Family Island. Is the class any different?
Not in any respect. The country keeps one time zone, so the Saturday morning slot is the same hour for you as for a family in Nassau, and the group a learner joins is assembled on demonstrated ability from an intake across twenty-five countries rather than by location. The only thing worth checking is your connection, and the free first class is partly there to do exactly that.
How reliable does our internet need to be?
It needs to carry ninety minutes of video with screen sharing, twice a month at minimum and weekly ideally. Nationally, penetration was 94.8 per cent at the start of 2025 and electricity access is recorded at 100 per cent, so for most households this is already in place. If it struggles during the free session we will tell you plainly rather than take a year's booking that will fail by week six.
Why weekend mornings rather than after school?
Because our teachers are in India, which is nine and a half to ten and a half hours ahead of the Bahamas depending on the season. Four in the afternoon here is half past two in the morning there, and we will not staff that. Eight on a Saturday morning here is half past six in the evening for the teacher, which is a good hour at both ends rather than a compromise at one.
How much does it cost?
A group batch of five to eight students is USD 100 a month and one to one teaching is USD 150 a month, billed in US dollars, the same flat figures everywhere outside India. There is no enrolment fee, no annual contract, and the first class is free without a card.
Is this connected to Upskill Bahamas?
No, and it does not overlap with it. Upskill Bahamas is a free government platform launched in November 2025 and open to Bahamians aged sixteen and over. If your child is sixteen or older, use it: it is free and it carries courses from institutions including Harvard, Oxford and Columbia. This is a paid weekly programme for ages six to sixty-seven, and it exists largely because nothing in that platform is available to a younger child.
Do you have anywhere in the Bahamas we could visit?
No premises anywhere in the country and no representative. Every session is a live video call taught from India, and the telephone number on this page rings in India rather than locally. What you supply is a computer with a keyboard, a connection that holds video, audio the teacher can hear and a browser from the last few years.
What about the volunteer and school robotics programmes here?
They do real and valuable work and we are not going to argue against them. A robotics kit in a Bahamian classroom is a genuine good, and a child who has used one usually arrives with better instincts than one who has not. What a grant-funded volunteer effort cannot easily promise is the same teacher every week for twelve months, a written record for each student, and a repository with a year of dated commits. That is a different product rather than a better version of the same one.
Can adults join, or is this only for school students?
Ages six to sixty-seven, and adults are a routine part of the intake. The usual adult pattern here is somebody wanting to automate work they currently do by hand, which suits one to one because the syllabus can bend entirely around the task and usually finishes inside a few months rather than a year.
Which island do most of your Bahamian students come from?
New Providence, which is unsurprising given that three quarters of the country lives there. What we would point out is that when the national upskilling platform opened, more than two thousand of the first ten thousand registrations came from the Family Islands, which suggests the demand outside Nassau is considerably larger than the local provision would imply.
What happens after we send the form?
A mentor telephones you at a Bahamian hour to arrange the free session. Nothing is charged and no card is requested. Sending the form opens a conversation rather than an enrolment and holds no place in any batch. The stage, the format and the weekend slot are agreed on that call, ahead of any discussion of money.
