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Friends of mine asked me to write occasionally in english. The easiest option is to write about finnish school system. There is a lot of information available in internet but I´ll try to do my best and write a little summary. Before school: Basically there are two options. Parents can care for the children at home or choose a day care or other early education service. The most common option is early education in day care centres organised by cities and communities. 6 years old : The year they turn six, children take part in pre primary education before school begins. Pre-primary education is based on the national curriculum.The point is to offer children equal opportunities for learning and starting school. Comprehensive school: first of all, basic education including textbooks, materials and lunch at school are free for children. The history of comprehensive school in Finland goes all the way to 70 :s Goverments come and go but comprehensive schools stay.We are proud about our system in Finland. Comprehensive schools are primary schools with grades 1-6, middle schools with grades 7-9 or joint comprehensive schools with grades 1-9. A master´s degree is a basic requirement for all teachers. In Finland teachers have full autonomy in the classroom. Each pupil is entitled to individual pupil welfare consisting of school health services, psychologist and school social officer services. Upper secondary education: after basic education most of the pupils continue to upper secondary schools.Options are general upper secondary school or vocational education and training.General upper secondary school lasts average 3 years. Passing the final examination of general upper secondary school, the matriculation examination, entitles the candidate to apply for studies at university level. After vocational education many students continue studies in University of applied science.it is also very popular option for students after upper secondary school. Lifelonglearning is the term which we use to descripe studies after schools. In Finland there are a lot of options to study "lifelong"