{"id":140619,"date":"2025-11-17T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140619"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:49:42","slug":"phd-for-landfill-supervisor-raises-a-stink-over-credential-excess-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140619","title":{"rendered":"PhD for landfill supervisor raises a stink over credential excess in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA county-level sanitation office in southern China has invited ridicule and stoked a public debate after posting a job that requires a PhD to supervise garbage trucks and landfills \u2013 an unusual demand that critics say epitomises China\u2019s runaway degree inflation.<br \/>\nThe posting in Guangdong province, by the office that manages urban environmental sanitation for Shixing county, appeared online last week under a notice for \u201curgently needed high-level talent for public institutions\u201d issued by the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3333076\/wanted-china-garbage-supervisor-phd?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 county-level sanitation office in southern China has invited ridicule and stoked a public debate after posting a job that requires a PhD to&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\/140619"}],"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=140619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}