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> Live online AI and machine learning classes for students in the UAE, ages 6 to 67. Train and ship real models in Python, not just prompts. Free first class.

In short

Modern Age Coders runs live online AI and machine learning classes across the United Arab Emirates, ages 6 to 67, in batches of five to eight or one to one. Students learn Python and the mathematics beneath machine learning, then train, evaluate and correct their own models instead of only prompting AI products. Group fees are USD 40 a month, AED 146.90 at the dirham peg, and the first class is free.

The catalogue

## Twelve live courses, ordered by present ability

A nine year old and a working data analyst do not get the same syllabus at different speeds. Each band below runs its own syllabus and its own build work, and arrives somewhere different. Open any card for the complete schedule and its projects.

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### Children, ages 6 to 12

Real code early, and an honest account of what a model is

AE / KIDS / 01

#### Python and AI for Kids

A real programming language from the first week, not a blocks toy. Turtle graphics, small games, then the idea that a machine can work out a rule nobody typed in.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/python-ai-kids-masterclass)

AE / KIDS / 02

#### AI Literacy for Kids

Why an AI can sound completely certain and be completely wrong, and how to check an answer before repeating it. A level deeper than the school ethics module.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/ai-literacy-for-kids-course)

AE / KIDS / 03

#### Vibe Coding for Kids

Children instruct an AI tool to build something, then read what came back and repair what is broken. Judging the output is what we spend the term on.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/vibe-coding-for-kids-beginners-ai-scratch-game-dev)II

### Teenagers, ages 13 to 18

From syntax to a model that can be shown to be right or wrong

AE / TEEN / 01

#### AI and Machine Learning for Teens

The main route on this page. Python, the mathematics the subject genuinely needs, neural networks, computer vision and language models, with a measured model closing every stage.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/ai-ml-masterclass-teens)

AE / TEEN / 02

#### Data Science for Teens

Most of the work happens before the model. Loading, cleaning, joining and plotting real files, hunting the outlier that would have poisoned the result, then predicting.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/data-science-course-for-teens-python-data)

AE / TEEN / 03

#### Python for Teens

Two years from the first line of code to genuinely advanced Python. The right start if your child arrives without programming and wants the AI track on firm ground.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/python-complete-masterclass-teens)

AE / TEEN / 04

#### Vibe Coding for Teens

Shipping real web and Python projects with AI assistance, while learning to review what the assistant wrote. Teens finish able to defend every line out loud.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/vibe-coding-for-teens-python-web-ai-projects-course)III

### University students and working professionals

Depth, generative systems, and production work

AE / PRO / 01

#### AI and Machine Learning Masterclass

The full engineering route. Supervised and unsupervised learning, deep networks, training discipline, evaluation that survives a second reader, and the deployment step most courses leave out.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/ai-ml-masterclass-complete-college)

AE / PRO / 02

#### Generative AI: LLMs, RAG and Agents

How language models are built, fine tuned and grounded against your own documents, and how agents are constrained so they fail loudly instead of quietly. Directly relevant to agentic government services.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/complete-generative-ai-masterclass-college)

AE / PRO / 03

#### Python and AI Automation

For working professionals in Dubai and Abu Dhabi who want the applied half first. Machine learning and language processing pointed at the pipelines already on your desk.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/python-ai-automation-masterclass-college)

AE / PRO / 04

#### Data Science Masterclass

Built around what a hiring manager actually checks. Statistics, SQL, feature work, modelling, and explaining a result to someone who will never open your notebook.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/data-science-complete-masterclass-college)

AE / PRO / 05

#### Data Structures and Algorithms

The gate on every serious engineering interview, and the reason a model that runs on a thousand rows still runs on ten million. Problem solving, not memorised patterns.

[Open the syllabus](/courses/data-structures-algorithms-masterclass-college)

AE / ALL / 06

#### Browse the full catalogue

Beyond AI we teach mathematics from early number sense to university level, web development, app development, game development and exam preparation, all on UAE timings.

[Open all courses](/courses)

What you actually build

## The DXB load curve, a forecast that has to survive a real shock

Every market we teach in gets its own first machine learning project, built on figures an operator in that country published itself. Here that is Dubai International Airport. DXB is the world's busiest international airport, Dubai Airports reports traffic every quarter, and India is the largest single market on the network, so students are modelling their own family's route home.

| Period | Passengers, millions | Flight movements |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Q1 2025 | 23.4 | 222,000 across H1 |
| Q2 2025 | 22.5 | 222,000 across H1 |
| Q3 2025 | 24.2 | 115,000 |
| Q4 2025 | 25.1 | 118,000 |
| Full year 2025 | 95.2 | 454,800 |

The passenger column reconciles exactly, and checking it is task one. The first three quarters sum to 70.1 million, precisely the nine month total Dubai Airports reported, and adding the fourth gives 95.2 million, precisely the published full year, up 3.1 per cent. If a student's file does not reproduce both totals, no model built on it can be right.

The movements column deliberately behaves differently. The first half is published as one combined figure of 222,000, so that column cannot be summed the way the passenger column can. Refusing to add up a column that was never meant to be added is the lesson of the first hour.

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Below quarterly level the operator published only five figures, and only those count as read rather than invented: January 2025 at 8.5 million, April 2025 at 8.0 million, December 2025 at 8.7 million and up 6.1 per cent, March 2026 at 2.5 million and down 65.7 per cent, and the Q1 2026 total of 18.6 million, down 20.6 per cent. The covariates are equally concrete: a 2025 load factor of 77.6 per cent, 214 passengers per aircraft movement, and 291 destinations across 110 countries flown by 108 airlines. Then the shock. Dubai Airports reports disruption beginning on 28 February 2026 and intensifying through March under regional airspace restrictions, with airspace fully restored as of its release of 4 May 2026. A model trained on 2025 alone has no way of knowing any of that.

| Market | H1 2025 | Full year 2025 | Q1 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| India | 5.9 m | 11.9 m | 2.5 m |
| Saudi Arabia | 3.6 m | 7.5 m | 1.3 m |
| United Kingdom | 3.0 m | 6.3 m | 1.2 m |
| Pakistan | 2.1 m | 4.3 m | 918,000 |
| United States | 1.6 m | 3.3 m | not disclosed |

1. #### Close the table before writing model code

  Type the four quarterly figures into a CSV and check them against the published 70.1 million and 95.2 million totals. If it does not close, stop and find the error. Reconciling before modelling is the habit this project is really teaching.
2. #### Disaggregate quarters into months, and label what you invented

  Split each quarter into three months under a sum to quarter constraint, anchored on the four months published individually. Add a boolean column is_derived, TRUE on everything you produced rather than read. A derived value must never be quoted later as published.
3. #### Build the calendar features by hand

  Map dates to Ramadan overlap days. Ramadan 2025 ran roughly 1 to 30 March, and Ramadan 2026 began 18 February with Eid Al Fitr forecast for 20 March. Layer in Ministry of Education term dates, including winter break 14 December 2026 to 3 January 2027.
4. #### Face the confound instead of hiding it

  Ramadan 2026 began 18 February and the disruption began 28 February, so across March 2026 the two effects are collinear and cannot be separated from this data. Estimate the Ramadan coefficient on clean March 2025, hold it fixed, and write the limitation into the notebook in plain words.
5. #### Fit three models in order and compare them honestly

  A seasonal naive baseline, then linear regression, then gradient boosting, each scored by mean absolute error in millions of passengers. Report what you measured. On a series this short the complicated model often loses, and saying so beats a leaderboard.
6. #### Run the shock experiment

  Fit without the airspace_restricted flag, predict March 2026, and record the error against the published actual of 2.5 million. Then refit with the flag. Whatever that first error turns out to be, its size is the lesson about forecasting blind.
7. #### Backtest, then write the forecast note

  Hide Q4 2025, published actual 25.1 million, predict it, and report mean absolute error and mean absolute percentage error. Then write a one page note on 2026 from the published Q1 actual of 18.6 million and say plainly whether the operator's original 99.5 million projection is still reachable.

The distinction

## Operating AI and engineering it are different subjects

We teach both, in that order, and we tell parents plainly which of the two holds its value. Prompting is a product skill, and products get replaced. Building models rests on mathematics, and that foundation does not shift.

#### Using AI tools

- Type a request, read the reply, reword it until the reply looks acceptable
- Learn the interface of whichever product happens to be ahead this year
- Success means output that reads plausibly to a non specialist
- Almost nothing carries over when the product changes or the pricing does
- Worth about a term of anyone's time, taught properly and then left behind
- We do teach it, including how to catch an answer that is confident and wrong

#### Building AI

- Assemble and clean the data, then defend every choice you made about it
- Pick a model knowing what it is quietly assuming on your behalf
- Train it, then state the error in a unit a parent could check
- Work out whether a failure belongs to the data, the features or the model
- Put it in front of real inputs and watch it degrade against them
- Founded on statistics, linear algebra and code, which do not date

The distinction is unusually concrete here, because the UAE is building AI rather than only buying it. The Technology Innovation Institute open sources the Falcon family, so a teenager in Sharjah can fine tune and deploy a model trained in their own country. The federal Agentic AI Project commits to retraining 80,000 government employees. None of that needs more people who can write a prompt.

Why now, in the UAE

## A country that decided to build AI, and what that asks of a student

The UAE National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence 2031 was launched in October 2017, the first national AI strategy in the Arab world, and updated in 2021. That same month Omar Sultan Al Olama became Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, the first such minister anywhere. His portfolio widened in July 2020 to Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, and he now leads the Federal Authority for Artificial Intelligence and Data. The strategy names its priority sectors plainly: energy and utilities, healthcare, tourism and hospitality, logistics and transportation, and cybersecurity.

On 4 May 2025 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced that AI becomes a compulsory subject in every UAE government school from Kindergarten to Grade 12. It covers seven domains, running from fundamental concepts, data and algorithms and software through to ethical awareness, real world applications, innovation and project design, and policies and community engagement, and it is taught inside the existing Computing, Creative Design and Innovation course with no extra class hours. Cycle One and Two students get one class every two weeks and Cycle Three students one a week, delivered by around 1,000 teachers who completed advanced training. Education Minister Sarah Al Amiri set out the detail at a Dubai briefing reported on 23 August 2025.

On 18 May 2026 the UAE Cabinet approved a federal framework for the Agentic AI Project, requiring at least 50 per cent of federal government services and operations to move to agentic AI models within two years, with 80,000 federal employees trained across five occupational categories. Phase one covers citizens' services, residents' services, business sector services and general public services.

Dubai adds its own layer: 22 Chief AI Officers appointed across government entities under the Dubai Universal Blueprint for Artificial Intelligence, and the Dubai AI Academy, launched on 25 April 2025 at the DIFC Innovation Hub with the Said Business School at Oxford, Udacity, the Minerva Project and DIFC Academy, targeting 10,000 leaders. The physical layer is being poured in Abu Dhabi, where Stargate UAE, announced on 22 May 2025, is a 5 gigawatt compute cluster across 10 square miles built by G42 with OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank Group and Cisco.

Read that list as a parent and every item on it is a construction project. None of them is short of people who can write a prompt.

KG to Grade 12

AI compulsory in every UAE government school from the 2025-26 academic year

50% in 2 years

Federal services to move to agentic AI under the May 2026 Cabinet framework

100,000

Ten year Golden Visas for coders under the National Program for Coders

5 GW

Compute planned at the Abu Dhabi AI campus, first 200 MW phase due in 2026

### Where the demand actually sits

AIQ, the ADNOC and G42 joint venture set up in 2020 in which Presight holds 51 per cent, announced a 340 million US dollar three year contract in 2025 to deploy ENERGYai across ADNOC's upstream value chain. ENERGYai combines large language models with agentic AI trained on 70 years of proprietary data, built with G42 and Microsoft on Azure, the Open Subsurface Data Universe framework and OpenAI models. AIQ has developed 200 AI use cases at ADNOC, including predictive maintenance that cuts drilling site downtime.

The Technology Innovation Institute open sources the Falcon family, from Falcon LLM in 2023 to Falcon H1 on 21 May 2025 and Falcon H1 Arabic on 5 January 2026. PwC's 2026 AI Jobs Barometer names the UAE among the world's fastest growing AI talent markets, with financial services carrying the highest local AI wage premium. Employers running real data teams here include e&, Emirates NBD, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Mashreq, the Emirates Group, DP World, Careem, Talabat and Tabby.

School and university

## How this maps onto your child's current curriculum

### The schools, and two academic years in one household

In 2024-25 the KHDA regulated private sector in Dubai held 387,441 students across 227 private schools offering 17 curricula to 185 nationalities, a 6 per cent rise in enrolment. By students the split was UK 36 per cent, Indian 26 per cent, American 15 per cent, International Baccalaureate 7 per cent and UAE Ministry of Education 4 per cent, with Indian provision concentrated in 34 schools carrying more than 99,603 students. The Education Cost Index for 2025-26 was set at 2.35 per cent, and on 22 May 2026 KHDA confirmed no fee increase for Dubai private schools in 2026-27.

The UAE has 106 CBSE affiliated schools, the largest CBSE network outside India, and CBSE's new Global Curriculum is scheduled to launch from April 2026, reported as still at the draft stage, with KHDA, ADEK and SPEA collaborating on contextualisation, teacher training and certificate recognition. In Abu Dhabi the latest ADEK Irtiqa'a round covered 204 private schools, rating 13 Outstanding, 51 Very Good, 93 Good, 42 Acceptable and 5 Weak against six core standards and 17 performance indicators.

The scheduling consequence is one most providers miss. Indian curriculum schools run April to March, while British, American and IB schools run from late August or September to June or July, so a Dubai household can be running two academic years at once. We batch by level and slot rather than by board, and we schedule around CBSE and CISCE boards from February to April, Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel IGCSE, AS and A Level in May and June, and IB and AP in May.

### MBZUAI, Khalifa, UAEU, and the mathematics gate

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi, the world's first graduate level AI university, received more than 8,000 applications for Fall 2025 and admitted 403 students, an acceptance rate of 5 per cent, taking enrolment past 700 from over 47 nationalities. UAE nationals were 25 per cent of the undergraduate intake, and 151 incoming graduate students, 27.5 per cent, arrived with degrees from top 100 computer science universities. It offers a BSc in Artificial Intelligence with Engineering and Business streams, MSc programmes from Computer Vision to Natural Language Processing, and PhDs including Human-Computer Interaction.

Khalifa University offers a BS in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Engineering, with shortlisted undergraduates normally sitting the Khalifa University Admission Test in mathematics and science. UAEU in Al Ain made AI a mandatory requirement for every student regardless of major from the Fall semester of 2025/2026. BITS Pilani Dubai Campus admits to its B.E. in Computer Science directly on Class 12 marks, requiring Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and English with 60 per cent overall and 60 per cent in PCM. Other in market routes include University of Birmingham Dubai, University of Wollongong in Dubai, Amity University Dubai, New York University Abu Dhabi, American University of Sharjah and Heriot-Watt University Dubai.

One pattern runs through all of it. Khalifa tests mathematics. MBZUAI weighs prior depth. UAEU has made AI unavoidable for a medical student and an engineer alike. A child who spent five years getting good at prompting and no time on linear algebra meets none of it, which is why our teens track teaches the mathematics inside the machine learning.

How the classes run

## Built around a week that ends at Friday lunchtime

The UAE keeps Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4, with no daylight saving at any point in the year, which puts it exactly one hour and thirty minutes behind Indian Standard Time. When it is 8:00 PM in Mumbai it is 6:30 PM in Dubai, so our main teaching block lands on a UAE school evening rather than late at night.

17:00 to 18:30

Weekdays, 18:30 to 20:00 IST. Primary and middle school, once the school day and the drive home are done.

19:30 to 21:00

Weekdays, 21:00 to 22:30 IST. Grade 9 to 12 students and working adults, after dinner.

Sat 10:00 to 12:00

11:30 to 13:30 IST. The strongest slot for a two hour project build, because Saturday is a full weekend day in every emirate.

### The weekend is the part that catches people out

Since 1 January 2022 the UAE working and school week has run Monday to Friday with an early Friday finish, and the weekend is Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. Schools in emirates following the federal directive may hold classes only until a maximum of 12:00 on Fridays. Sharjah is the exception and moved to a four day week, Monday to Thursday, so a Sharjah family is free all day Friday while a Dubai or Abu Dhabi family is not free until Friday midday. That produces a fourth slot we run on request: Friday at 2:00 PM UAE time, 3:30 PM in India.

A session is ninety minutes of live video with a teacher who remembers what your child got stuck on last week. Screens are shared both ways, so a mistake gets interrupted as it happens rather than marked three days later. Batches are five to eight students, or one to one. Between sessions students get something to build, break and bring back.

### The academic calendar we plan around

The Ministry of Education has published a three year calendar. For schools on the Ministry curriculum the 2026-27 year starts 31 August 2026 for students and 24 August for teaching and administrative staff, with a mid term break 12 to 18 October 2026, winter break 14 December 2026 to 3 January 2027, spring break 5 to 11 April 2027, and an end date of 2 July 2027. The 2027-28 year starts 30 August 2027, with a mid term break 11 to 17 October, winter break 13 December 2027 to 2 January 2028, spring break 27 March to 2 April 2028, and an end date of 30 June 2028.

Ramadan and Eid move about eleven days earlier each year and shorten the school day. Ramadan 2026 began on 18 February 2026 and Eid Al Fitr was forecast for Friday 20 March 2026 by the Emirates Astronomy Society, subject to the UAE Moon-Sighting Committee. That puts Ramadan 2027 in early February, running into the CBSE board window, which is worth planning for now. Commemoration Day and UAE National Day fall on 1, 2 and 3 December, and the long summer break covers July and August.

Student work

## Applications our students built and left running

Not one of these lives in a slide deck. Every one is a working application at a real address, left online where anyone, including an admissions officer, can open it. More sit in [Student Labs](/student-labs).

![NutriLife AI nutrition coach project screenshot](/images/projects/nutrilife.webp)

AI and ML

#### NutriLife, an AI nutrition coach

A nutrition assistant that reads what you eat and coaches you toward a target, built end to end by a student.

by Bhavya · [Open the live project](https://nutrilife-bhavya.lovable.app)

![Misti AI chatbot for maths and coding screenshot](/images/projects/misti.webp)

AI and ML

#### Misti, an AI chatbot for maths and coding

A tutoring chatbot that answers maths and programming questions, written and deployed by a student.

by Harshit · [Open the live project](https://misti.modernagecoders.com)

![GuardianX AI safety assistant screenshot](/images/projects/guardianx.webp)

AI and ML

#### GuardianX, an AI safety assistant

An assistant that helps a young person spot unsafe situations online, designed and shipped by a student.

by Vivaan · [Open the live project](https://guardianx-cybersaver.lovable.app)

![SkyCast weather forecast app screenshot](/images/projects/skycast.webp)

Data and forecasting

#### SkyCast, a weather forecast app

A forecasting front end that pulls live weather data and presents it clearly, built and published by a student.

by Krish · [Open the live project](https://krish-shroff.github.io/AuraWeatherTech/)

Fees

## What it costs a family in the UAE

The dirham does not float. The Central Bank of the UAE has held a fixed peg to the US dollar since 1997 at 1 USD to 3.6725 AED, defending it by standing ready to buy or sell in unlimited size, and every other rate in the country is a cross rate derived from it. The dirham figures below are therefore arithmetic rather than a conversion that drifts. Paid monthly, with no admission charge and no annual contract.

Free first class

AED 0

USD 0, no card needed

- A real class, not a sales call
- Doubles as a placement check so the teacher pitches the level correctly
- You watch, and decide afterwards

Book it

Group batch

AED 146.90

USD 40 a month at the peg

- Five to eight students, same teacher every week
- Live video, never a recording
- Weekly build tasks and teacher review
- Certificate on completion

Start here

One to one

AED 367.25

USD 100 a month at the peg

- Private teaching, your pace and your schedule
- Best for board years and adults with limited evenings
- Syllabus adapted to the goal you name

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What families say

## Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews

These are real reviews left by real families. We do not write testimonials and we do not commission them.

★★★★★

"I highly recommend this computer coding class! The teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about coding. They explain complex concepts in an easy way and encourage students to ask questions and think critically. The friendly class atmosphere has boosted my son's confidence and interest in coding."

Ritu Kedia

Parent

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders has been a game-changer for me. I struggled to grasp IT concepts and coding before joining, but their classes transformed everything. I can now confidently write complex programs with ease."

Samriddha Mondal

Student

★★★★★

"My son has been attending this coding class for the past couple of months, and I have been genuinely impressed with both his progress and enthusiasm. The instructors are incredibly patient and knowledgeable. I have noticed a big boost in his confidence."

Poonam Rathore

Parent

★★★★★

"My child Dhairya is really enjoying the Modern Age Coders classes. This is his first online class and he eagerly looks forward to it. I can already see his improvement, and the teachers are very cooperative."

Sonam Oswal

Parent of Dhairya

★★★★★

"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

Vansh Agarwal

Student

★★★★★

"Coding classes here make learning very interesting and conceptual. The teachers teach us in a very easy-to-understand and efficient way."

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Student

Questions from the UAE

## What families in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah ask us first

### My child's UAE school already teaches AI from KG to Grade 12. Why pay for classes on top of that?

Because the school programme is literacy and ours is construction. The government curriculum covers seven domains inside the existing Computing, Creative Design and Innovation course with no extra class hours, and Cycle One and Cycle Two students get one lesson every two weeks. That is enough to make a child conversant about AI. It is not enough time to clean a dataset, fit a model, measure the error and work out why the error is what it is.

### What class times work for a Dubai or Sharjah family, and does the time difference mean late nights?

No late nights. The UAE is on Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4, exactly one hour and thirty minutes behind India, so when it is 8:00 PM in Mumbai it is 6:30 PM in Dubai. Weekday slots run 17:00 to 18:30 for primary and middle school and 19:30 to 21:00 for Grade 9 to 12 and adults, with Saturday 10:00 to 12:00 for project builds. We also run a Friday 2:00 PM slot on request, which suits Dubai and Abu Dhabi students because schools close by noon on Fridays, and suits Sharjah families even better because Sharjah keeps a four day week.

### How much is this in dirhams, and does the price move?

A group batch is USD 40 a month, which is AED 146.90, and one to one teaching is USD 100 a month, which is AED 367.25. Those dirham figures do not drift, because the Central Bank of the UAE has held a fixed peg to the US dollar since 1997 at 1 USD to 3.6725 AED. Your card issuer may add its own foreign transaction fee, which is a bank charge rather than a currency movement. The first class is free and needs no card.

### Will this actually help with MBZUAI or with Khalifa University admissions?

It builds the evidence those applications are judged on. MBZUAI received more than 8,000 applications for Fall 2025 and admitted 403 students, an acceptance rate of 5 per cent, and 151 of its incoming graduate students, 27.5 per cent, arrived with degrees from top 100 computer science universities. Khalifa University asks shortlisted undergraduate applicants to sit an admission test covering mathematics and science. Neither is won by tool fluency, so we teach the mathematics inside the machine learning and every student leaves with published projects an admissions reader can open and run.

### UAEU now makes AI compulsory for every undergraduate. Is Python enough to prepare for that?

Python is the entry ticket, not the preparation. From the Fall semester of 2025/2026, United Arab Emirates University made AI a mandatory requirement for every student regardless of major, through four introductory courses of which the student takes one. A student who can write Python but has never split a dataset, fitted a model or read a confusion matrix will pass those courses without understanding them. Our teens track puts regression, classification, evaluation and the underlying statistics in front of a school leaver first.

### We are on the Indian April to March year but our neighbours are on the British September to June year. Which batch would my child join?

We batch by level and by available slot, never by board, precisely because the UAE runs two academic years side by side. Indian curriculum schools run April to March, while British, American and IB schools run from late August or September to June or July, so a household with one child in each system can still put both in classes on the same evening. We then schedule around whichever exam window applies: CBSE and CISCE boards roughly February to April, IGCSE, AS and A Level in May and June, and IB and AP in May.

### Do your projects use real UAE data, or the same generic datasets every online class uses?

Real published UAE data. The first machine learning project in this market forecasts monthly passenger traffic at Dubai International Airport using figures Dubai Airports published itself: 23.4 million in Q1 2025, 22.5 million in Q2, 24.2 million in Q3, 25.1 million in Q4 and 95.2 million for the full year. Students reconcile the table before modelling, build Ramadan and school holiday features, then test the model against the published March 2026 actual of 2.5 million.

### We may relocate from the UAE to India, the UK or Canada. Does my child's progress move with us?

Yes, and it is one of the few genuine advantages of a live online school over a local centre. The class is not tied to a building, so the same teacher, the same batch and the same syllabus continue from a new address, and we move the student to a slot that works in the new time zone. We already teach across 25 or more countries, and project work lives at public web links the student owns, so a portfolio built in Dubai stays openable from Toronto, London or Bengaluru.

Start here

## Book the free first class

Leave a number and a mentor calls you back, usually within a few hours, at an hour that suits the UAE. The first class is a real class with a real teacher, and it doubles as a placement check so your child starts at the right level rather than the average one.

Prefer to look around first? Read [how we teach](/how-we-teach), browse the [full course catalogue](/courses), or see what students have built in [Student Labs](/student-labs).

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