{"id":140404,"date":"2025-11-13T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140404"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:00:48","slug":"qs-university-rankings-ridiculed-in-china-as-latest-listing-bombs-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140404","title":{"rendered":"QS university rankings ridiculed in China as latest listing bombs online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA university ranking that once had the reputation in China as one of the world\u2019s most authoritative measures of higher education has become the subject of ridicule on social media.<br \/>\nThe QS World University Rankings, produced by the London-based education consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds since 2004, has long been regarded as a \u201cgold standard\u201d for comparing universities worldwide.<br \/>\nEven today, some Chinese companies and local governments use it as a main criterion for hiring and granting residency&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3332679\/qs-university-rankings-ridiculed-china-latest-listing-bombs-online?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA university ranking that once had the reputation in China as one of the world\u2019s most authoritative measures of higher education has become the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}