The professional education and training college for child care and education (Höhere Fachschule für Kindheitspädagogik) is located in Zug. It provides a three-year part-time programme in combination with work for people specialising in child care and education in a family or school context. The preliminary and the main course each last around one-and-a-half years. The college for child care and education offers practice-oriented and scientifically founded content and leads to graduation as a federally certified child educator (Kindheitspädagog/-in HF).