Live online maths, English, science and VCE tutoring for Australian expat and returning families, taught to the Victorian Curriculum by Melbourne tutors, scheduled in your local time and priced in Australian dollars.
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Tens of thousands of Australian children are at school overseas at any one time, in British, American, IB and Australian-curriculum international schools, and almost all of them will come home. RHZ Tutoring keeps those children on the Australian year level while they are away: weekly live sessions with a Melbourne-based, Victorian-curriculum-trained tutor, a free online Skills Check as the annual benchmark NAPLAN would have provided, and practice papers that download instantly anywhere in the world. Choose your city below for local session times, the international schools we tutor from, and the questions parents in that city ask.
International schools are excellent at what they teach, but they do not teach the Australian sequence. Maths topics arrive in a different order, algebra begins earlier or later, and the explicit grammar, persuasive and analytical writing that Australian schools assess from Year 3 is often absent. A child can be top of the class in Dubai or Singapore and still be placed a year behind in Melbourne. Our tutors plan every session from the Victorian Curriculum year level the child will return to, so the gap never opens.
The return itself is the second driver. Families coming back for Years 9 to 12 are walking into the VCE or the HSC; families with younger children often have a selective-entry or scholarship exam in mind. We run the same preparation for overseas students as for our Melbourne students, on the same timeline, and we are honest about how a child is tracking.
Third, there is no NAPLAN overseas. The free Skills Check is pitched at the top of the child's Australian year level, drawn from a 5,900-question bank across Prep to Year 12, and delivers a topic-by-topic report the same day. It works from any country and costs nothing.
United Arab Emirates · Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4
Dubai is 6 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 7 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 9pm Melbourne session is 3pm local. Students there attend international schools such as Dubai College, Jumeirah College and GEMS Wellington International School.
United Arab Emirates · Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4
Abu Dhabi is 6 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 7 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 9pm Melbourne session is 3pm local. Australian School of Abu Dhabi runs an Australian-curriculum program; we also tutor students from Brighton College Abu Dhabi and Cranleigh Abu Dhabi.
Qatar · Arabia Standard Time, UTC+3
Doha is 7 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 8 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 10pm Melbourne session is 3pm local. Students there attend international schools such as Doha College, Doha British School and Compass International School Doha.
Singapore · Singapore Standard Time, UTC+8
Singapore is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 6pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Australian International School Singapore runs an Australian-curriculum program; we also tutor students from UWCSEA and Dover Court International School.
Malaysia · Malaysia Time, UTC+8
Kuala Lumpur is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 6pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Australian International School Malaysia runs an Australian-curriculum program; we also tutor students from Garden International School and The Alice Smith School.
Indonesia · Western Indonesia Time, UTC+7
Jakarta is 3 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 4 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 7pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Australian Independent School Jakarta runs an Australian-curriculum program; we also tutor students from Jakarta Intercultural School and British School Jakarta.
Thailand · Indochina Time, UTC+7
Bangkok is 3 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 4 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 7pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Australian International School Bangkok runs an Australian-curriculum program; we also tutor students from Bangkok Patana School and NIST International School.
Indonesia · Central Indonesia Time, UTC+8
Bali is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 6pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Australian Independent School Bali runs an Australian-curriculum program; we also tutor students from Green School Bali and Canggu Community School.
Philippines · Philippine Time, UTC+8
Manila is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 6pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Students there attend international schools such as International School Manila, British School Manila and Brent International School Manila.
Hong Kong SAR · Hong Kong Time, UTC+8
Hong Kong is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 6pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Australian International School Hong Kong runs an Australian-curriculum program; we also tutor students from English Schools Foundation (ESF) schools and Kellett School.
China · China Standard Time, UTC+8
Shanghai is 2 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 3 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 6pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Students there attend international schools such as Shanghai American School, Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong and Wellington College International Shanghai.
Japan · Japan Standard Time, UTC+9
Tokyo is 1 hour behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 2 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 5pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Students there attend international schools such as The American School in Japan, The British School in Tokyo and Tokyo International School.
United Kingdom · GMT / BST, UTC+0 in winter and UTC+1 in summer
London is 9 hours behind Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 11 hours behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 6pm Melbourne session is 9am local. Students there attend local state primaries and academies, grammar schools and independent day schools.
New Zealand · NZST / NZDT, UTC+12 in winter and UTC+13 in summer
Auckland is 2 hours ahead of Melbourne: a 1pm Melbourne session is 3pm local. Students there attend international schools such as Auckland Grammar School, Epsom Girls' Grammar School and Macleans College.
Fiji · Fiji Time, UTC+12
Suva is 2 hours ahead of Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 1 hour ahead of Melbourne on AEDT: a 2pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Students there attend international schools such as International School Suva and International School Nadi.
Papua New Guinea · Papua New Guinea Time, UTC+10
Port Moresby is the same time as Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST and 1 hour behind Melbourne on AEDT: a 4pm Melbourne session is 4pm local. Students there attend international schools such as Port Moresby International School and Ela Murray International School.
Small-group sessions from A$25 an hour; one-to-one A$35 to A$45 an hour depending on year level. Prices are identical to our Melbourne prices, plans are monthly with no lock-in, payment is in Australian dollars and international cards are accepted. The Skills Check and consultation are free.
Our Australian-curriculum practice papers (primary maths and English, Years 7 to 10 maths, NAPLAN-style papers for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, and VCE topic tests) are instant PDF downloads that work from any country. Browse all practice papers →
Anywhere with a reliable internet connection. The cities on this page are the ones we see most: the Gulf, South-East Asia, East Asia, the United Kingdom and the Pacific. If your city is not listed, the sessions work exactly the same way; email us with your time zone.
We schedule in your local time and confirm the Melbourne equivalent in writing. Melbourne is on AEST (UTC+10) until 3 October 2026 and AEDT (UTC+11) from 4 October, and each city page shows sample session times for both. Cities from Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur are one to three hours behind Melbourne, the Gulf is six to eight hours behind, London nine to eleven, and Auckland and Fiji are one to two hours ahead.
The Victorian Curriculum is Victoria's version of the Australian Curriculum for Prep to Year 10, with the same content sequence, so it suits a child returning to any Australian state. Years 11 and 12 are tutored to the VCE study designs.
With the free online Skills Check: 10 to 15 minutes pitched at the top of the child's Australian year level, drawn from a 5,900-question bank across Prep to Year 12, with a topic-by-topic report the same day. Most overseas families run it every year.
Only through a registered VCE provider such as Virtual School Victoria or an overseas school that offers the VCE; RHZ is not a provider and cannot enrol students. We tutor VCE subjects to enrolled students and prepare Year 10 students who will start the VCE on their return.
Small online groups from A$25 an hour and one-to-one A$35 to A$45 an hour, the same as in Melbourne. Payment is in Australian dollars and international Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards are accepted. The Skills Check and consultation are free.
Every tutor holds a current Victorian Working with Children Check, verified before they teach, and parents can sit in on any online session.
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