{"id":153419,"date":"2026-08-29T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/29\/patently-misleading-how-some-private-universities-are-gaming-rankings-the-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:04:00","slug":"patently-misleading-how-some-private-universities-are-gaming-rankings-the-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/29\/patently-misleading-how-some-private-universities-are-gaming-rankings-the-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Patently misleading: How some private universities are gaming rankings &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Patently misleading: How some private universities are gaming rankings<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Times of India<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patently misleading: How some private universities are gaming rankings&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times of India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}