Peter Acton

Dr Peter Acton is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and The Australian Institute of Management, and was Managing Partner of the Boston Consulting Group’s Melbourne office. He is the Founding President of Humanities21.

Peter's recent articles

The wisdom of youth in education

The wisdom of youth in education

At a time when good news is hard to come by, to hear of the substantial increase in the numbers of young people choosing to study the humanities in New South Wales in defiance of the Morrison governments Job Ready Graduates price changes, is cheering on several fronts.

Government fails to value the humanities, ignoring the realities

The Government's decision to more than double the cost of most humanities degrees is ignorant, cowardly and even malicious. A government that feels a need to constrain critical thinking must give us great cause for concern.

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