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The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of the UK government, reporting to Parliament via the Department for Education.

Ofsted is responsible for inspecting a range of educational institutions, including state schools and some independent schools.

It also inspects childcare, adoption and fostering agencies and initial teacher training, and regulates a range of early years and children’s social care services.

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.

A secondary school is one means of delivering education to adolescents in level 2 or junior secondary education, which is considered the second and final phase of basic education, or level 3 (Upper) secondary education phases on the ISCED scale.

Every country aims to provide schools for basic education, but the systems and terminology remain unique to them.

Secondary schools typically follow on from primary schools.

Attendance is compulsory in most countries for students between the ages 11 and 16.