Online School & Homeschool in Kathmandu

Online school and international curriculum in Kathmandu

For Kathmandu families — A-Levels exist here, and the subject you want may still not run for four students.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for Kathmandu families. The valley holds essentially all of Nepal's A-Level provision — Budhanilkantha, St Xavier's, Rato Bangala, Ullens and the A-Level colleges — alongside the diplomatic and development community and a professional population that takes education seriously. Cambridge is not new here. What a school still cannot always do is run Further Mathematics or a third science for four students, and admission to the leading institutions is competitive. Both of those are what we answer, in after-school hours that fit our teaching day.

Challenges Kathmandu families face

Specialist A-Level subjects often will not run for small cohorts even at the leading colleges.
Admission to the strongest schools and A-Level colleges is competitive.
Students arriving mid-year or changing institution have limited options.
We could not verify Nepal's position on parental home education from a primary instrument.
Time zone: Nepal runs NPT (UTC+5:45), two hours and forty-five minutes ahead of our teaching base — after-school classes work well.

Why Kathmandu families choose Smartious

The set your college cannot run: Further Mathematics or a third science for four students is unviable even at a good A-Level college and routine in a live group drawn from several countries.
No waiting list: A child starts within a week of the assessment, which matters where admission to the leading institutions is competitive.
After-school hours that genuinely work: Nepal is two hours and forty-five minutes ahead of our teaching base, so a four o'clock class in Kathmandu is quarter past one in the afternoon for our teachers.
A record read directly abroad: UCAS reads Cambridge A-Levels natively, and Australian, Japanese, Indian and North American universities read A-Levels and the IB directly.
Honest about the legal gap: We could not verify Nepal's home-education position and say so rather than guessing in either direction.

Nepali education is administered by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, basic education is compulsory, and the national qualifications are the Secondary Education Examination at the end of grade 10 and the National Examinations Board examinations at grades 11 and 12 — families should confirm the current age boundaries with the Ministry rather than take them from a provider. Private and institutional schools operate under government registration and oversight arrangements. On parental home education we could not verify Nepal's position against a primary instrument, and we will not guess: an absence of clear regulation is an absence of protection rather than a permission, because where a matter is unaddressed there is nothing for a family to demonstrate if the question is raised. Put it to the Ministry directly and keep the answer. Smartious is not a registered Nepali school, issues no Nepali qualification, and does not teach toward the SEE or the NEB examinations. That distinction is reasonably familiar in Kathmandu, because families here already choose between the NEB route and the A-Level route at grade 11 and understand that they lead to different certificates. Our teaching sits in the second category, alongside whichever institution a student attends.

Smartious delivers to Kathmandu families online; the live programme is complete without in-person supplementation.

Live online via Smartious LMS. Nepal runs two hours and forty-five minutes ahead of our teaching base — the only forty-five-minute offset in the world — with no seasonal changes on either side, so a four or six o'clock class in Kathmandu sits comfortably inside our teaching day at the same time every week, with every session recorded.

The Kathmandu valley holds essentially all of Nepal's A-Level provision, alongside the diplomatic and development community and a professional population that takes education seriously — with competitive admission to the leading schools and colleges. Nepal runs NPT (UTC+5:45), two hours and forty-five minutes ahead of our teaching base.

Family situations we work with

Students at A-Level colleges needing a subject the institution cannot run.
Diplomatic, development and international-organisation families.
Professional and academic households in the valley.
Families with a parent or sibling working abroad, investing in an internationally read qualification.
Students targeting UK, Australian, Indian, Japanese or North American universities.
Households arriving mid-year with no available place.

Kathmandu communities and nearby areas

Kathmandu · Lalitpur · Bhaktapur · Budhanilkantha · Lazimpat · Sanepa · the Kathmandu valley

Common questions from Kathmandu families

We are at an A-Level college already — what would we gain?

Usually one subject the college cannot run for four students: Further Mathematics, a third science, or a set that clashes. If your college covers what your child needs, we will tell you so.

Do you teach the SEE or the NEB examinations?

No. We are not a registered Nepali school and issue no Nepali qualification. We teach Cambridge, Edexcel, IB and AP, which sit alongside a school record — the same distinction families here already make between the NEB and A-Level routes at grade 11.

What time are classes?

After-school works particularly well. Nepal is two hours and forty-five minutes ahead of our teaching base, so a four o'clock class in Kathmandu is quarter past one in the afternoon for our teachers.

Is there a waiting list?

No. A child starts within a week of the assessment, which matters in a market where admission to the leading institutions is genuinely competitive.

Guides for families in Nepal

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