Working as a teacher in the United Arab Emirates
What official sources say about working as a teacher in the United Arab Emirates: how foreign qualifications are recognised.
Teacher is a regulated profession in the United Arab Emirates. Foreign qualifications go through: Hold at least a bachelor’s or four-year university degree in the required field; foreign graduates submit attested educational certificates. The Education Professional licence requires category-specific tests; tailored training follows an unsuccessful test.
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Hold at least a bachelor’s or four-year university degree in the required field; foreign graduates submit attested educational certificates. The Education Professional licence requires category-specific tests; tailored training follows an unsuccessful test.
Regulation and recognition
Teacher is a regulated profession in the United Arab Emirates.
- Recognition route
- Hold at least a bachelor’s or four-year university degree in the required field; foreign graduates submit attested educational certificates. The Education Professional licence requires category-specific tests; tailored training follows an unsuccessful test.
- Recognition authority
- Authority depends on emirate and school: MoE evaluates some private-school applicants; KHDA (Dubai), ADEK (Abu Dhabi), SPEA (Sharjah), and Ras Al Khaimah Department of Knowledge are named.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Teacher in the United Arab Emirates: recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 24549a26f1d4bbe3c35b64437fc45e42]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/united-arab-emirates/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {Teacher in the United Arab Emirates: recognition},
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[Teacher in the United Arab Emirates: recognition](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/united-arab-emirates/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version 24549a26f1d4bbe3c35b64437fc45e42; retrieved 2026-10-16; built 2026-10-16.This citation identifies the ImmigrationDB compilation/page. Underlying source publishers and datasets retain their own terms; inspect the Sources section and cite those records separately. View the underlying source records.