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Kindergarten (from German, which literally means "garden for the children") is a preschool educational approach traditionally based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school.

The first such institutions were created in the late 18th century in Bavaria and Strasbourg to serve children whose parents both worked out of the home.

The term was coined by the German Friedrich Fröbel, whose approach globally influenced early-years education.

Today, the term is used in many countries to describe a variety of educational institutions and learning spaces for children ranging from two to seven years of age, based on a variety of teaching methods.

A preschool (also nursery school, pre-primary school, kindergarten outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children, usually between the ages of three and five, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school.

They may be privately operated or government run, and one option is to subsidize the costs.

Child care or day care is the care of a child during the day by a person other than the child's legal guardians, typically performed by someone outside the child's immediate family.

Day care is typically an ongoing service during specific periods, such as the parents' time at work.

The service is known as child care in the United Kingdom, crèche in Ireland and New Zealand, and child care or day care in North America and Australia (although child care also has a broader meaning).

The vast majority of childcare is still performed by the parents, in-house nannies or through informal arrangements with relatives, neighbors or friends.

Child care in the child's own home is traditionally provided by a nanny or au pair, or by extended family members including grandparents, aunts and uncles.

Child care is provided in nurseries or crèches or by a nanny or family child care provider caring for children in their own homes.

It can also take on a more formal structure, with education, child development, discipline and even preschool education falling into the fold of services.

See infant school, junior school, or primary school and primary education.

See also.

Education in the United Kingdom.

Free education refers to education that is funded through taxation or charitable organizations rather than tuition funding.

Primary school and other comprehensive or compulsory education is free in many countries, for example, and all education is mostly free (often not including books (from primary) and a number of administrative and sundry fees in university) including post-graduate studies in the Nordic countries.

The Article 13 of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ensures the right to free education at primary education and progressive introduction of it at secondary and higher education as the right to education.

From 2013 in Northern Europe, Estonia started providing free higher education as well.

In Argentina, Norway and Finland, no fees apply for foreign students enrolling at a university, although they may not be eligible for a monthly study allowance and loan.

Bachelor's degree programmes in Norway are solely taught in Norwegian.

Master's degree programmes in Norway are offered in either Norwegian or English depending on the programme and/or university.

Sweden, until recently, provided free education to foreign students but changes have been introduced to charge fees to foreign students from outside of the European community.

Denmark also has universal free education, and provides a monthly stipend, the "Statens Uddannelsesstøtte" or "SU", to students over 18 years of age or students who are under 18 and attending a higher education.

Bachelor and master's degree programmes in Denmark are offered in either Danish or English depending on the programme and/or university.