CBSE & ICSE Online Tuition for Indian Students in the UK
For British-Indian families keeping the Indian curriculum, Hindi or Kannada going alongside a UK school day.
Some of the Indian families we work with in the UK have children who split time between British schooling and staying current with the CBSE or ICSE syllabus — often because of a planned move back to India, or because grandparents and cousins are still studying there. Others simply want their children to keep reading and writing Hindi or Kannada fluently, rather than losing it to daily life in English.
India is four-and-a-half to five-and-a-half hours ahead of the UK depending on the season, which puts a late-afternoon or early-evening India-time class right around the end of the UK school day — an easy slot to fit in without disrupting homework or dinner. Our tutors teach the exact CBSE/ICSE/State Board syllabus, not a generic equivalent.
Why parents choose Vihakids for this
- CBSE, ICSE and Karnataka State Board syllabus, matched to the exact textbook
- Class times land around the end of the UK school day, not late at night
- Hindi and Kannada taught for real fluency, not just conversation
- One-on-one, live and online — no travel needed on either side
Timings and curriculum for families in the UK
India is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of the UK in British Summer Time and 5 hours 30 minutes ahead in winter. An after-school class at 5pm in London is 10.30pm in India in winter, so UK families usually settle on late-afternoon UK slots, or weekend mornings, which land in a comfortable Indian evening.
Most children here follow the English national curriculum towards GCSEs, which is structured differently from CBSE — so we teach from your child’s own school material and specification rather than an Indian textbook. Hindi and Kannada for heritage learners are a common request from UK families as well.
- Time difference
- India is 4 hr 30 min (summer) or 5 hr 30 min (winter) ahead of the UK
- Comfortable slots
- Weekend mornings, or 3–5pm UK time
- Usual curriculum
- English national curriculum / GCSE
- Subjects we teach here
- English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science, Kannada
Questions parents ask
What time would classes be in the UK?
India is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead in British Summer Time and 5 hours 30 minutes ahead in winter. Most UK families settle on a late-afternoon UK slot or a weekend morning, both of which land in a normal Indian evening.
Do you teach the GCSE syllabus?
We teach from your child’s own school material and specification rather than an Indian textbook. For GCSE Mathematics and Science that works well; we are not an exam board specialist, so we are upfront that our strength is explaining the underlying topics one-on-one.
Can our child learn Hindi or Kannada as a heritage language?
Yes. This is a frequent request from UK families — reading and writing a language the child hears at home but has never studied formally. We start from the alphabet if that is where they are.