What goes into the making of a public intellectual life, one in which academic passions merge positively with social and civic life?
Tony Morphet was born in the small town of Kokstad on 1 April 1940, the youngest child of immigrants from Yorkshire. His farm upbringing left him with a deep respect for the harsh realities of rural labour, close observation of the natural world, especially of birds, and also a strange (for some) fascination for the complex machinery of tractors.
Once retired, he took informal lessons to improve the isiXhosa he had learnt as a boy.
Academically, his studies took him to the University of Natal and a degree in English in 1959. The contours of his political conviction were visible from an early age. At 17, he joined South Africa’s short-lived Liberal Party, where he worked closely with the writer Alan Paton.
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In a normal year, The Donkey Sanctuary’s veterinary team team would devote many hours to hands-on teaching at its state-of-the-art donkey hospital or would spend time at universities and colleges in the UK and abroad. © The Donkey Sanctuary
Veterinary students from around the world have benefited from a series of online teaching resources made available by The Donkey Sanctuary during the Covid-19 lockdown.
An initial approach from a British-based veterinary school led to help students with ‘Extra-Mural Studies’, placements to prepare them for working in clinical environments, led to the team putting together a suite of resources suitable for pre-clinical and clinical students. The resources included webinars, fact sheets, narrated power points, weblinks and case studies.
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