Academic inflation

Research on academic inflation

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything - Sir Ken Robinson's new book based on a collection of interviews with highly successful people.
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative - How we unlearn to be creative at school and what we can do against it; how to learn to be creative again.
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else - by Geoff Colvin

Sir Ken Robinson's famous speech at TED - Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson's famous speeech at the TED conference in Monterey, CA (2006)

Olson's observations - some great reflecions on Ken Robinson's lecture at TED by Eric Olson
Thinking About Academic Inflation - an interesting blog post on academic inflation (2008)
Son of a Preacher Man - reflections on Ken Robinson's thoughts
Just another blog post on the subject

Wikipedia's editable article on academic inflation - an explanation of Academic inflation indicating further sources
Do we need a Master degree in hairdressing? -a great article with some original thoughts on academic inflation
Yeshiva Advisors Regroup as Medical Schools Tighten Acceptances - an article about a grad school trying to get rid off the "inflation institute's" image
Digital books can create hurt (for libraries) - a post in the library blog of the University of Berkeley, California
SURVEY: HIGHER EDUCATION - Secrets of success - America's system of higher education is the best in the world. That is because there is no system. From The Economist print edition; Sep 8th 2005
Getting to grips with inflation - an old but not outdated article about the situation of the University education in the United Kingdom, by Michael Scott (1996)
How Our Education Systems Are Failing And Need Revamping

Scientific Literature Digital Library - Scientific Literature Digital Library
INDERSCIENCE.com - INDERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS; Publishers of distinguished academic, scientific and professional Journals
Scientific Commons - a Community for Scientific Information (BETA)
EconPapers.repec.org - EconPapers at Research Papers in Economics, a volunteer collaborarion of research on Economics
scholar.google.com - Google Scholar