All is Fair in Love and War and………….....

All is fair….. is it? Strikes me that fairness is an issue, whether we are talking about yesterday’s announcement of where, upon whom and how heavily the carbon tax (’non tax’ according to the President?) will ‘fall’ or how a student submitting work later than colleagues may be treated. I recall well enough a discussion with my ‘External Examiners’ at Bournemouth University concerning an issue relating to students who had written well over the 10-12000 dissertation or 20,000 – 24,000 thesis word limit (for those of a French disposition for whom the term is unknown, ‘External Examiners’ in the UK system are imposed upon all courses at all levels by the government paymaster: they are other academics and...