Remember all the scorn and criticisms of those in their 'ivory towers' of academia? I have recently had the privilege of being an external examiner for the validation of an Early Childhood Studies programme at the University of Cumbria, their first early years degree. Early Childhood Studies programmes are nothing new, and they, too, have come in for their share of criticism. However, the difference with this course has been ground-breaking, in the way it encompasses Every Child Matters in every sense. The university has its own Every Child...