{"id":10921,"date":"2019-08-08T01:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T01:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/?p=10921"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:15:13","slug":"winner-of-the-prestigious-financial-times-international-finance-corporation-world-bank-transformational-2019-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/blog\/winner-of-the-prestigious-financial-times-international-finance-corporation-world-bank-transformational-2019-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of the Prestigious Financial Times &#8211; International Finance Corporation (World Bank) Transformational 2019 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>View <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.prnasia.com\/story\/archive\/2720508_AE20508_0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official press release here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Financial Times - International Finance Corporation - Transformational Business Award Winner\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Trgycc_Hc9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The gala event in London was attended by many commendable nominees and winners.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"FT IFC Transformational Award for Education Acceptance\" width=\"1100\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KBcwqCYHSQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The moment our Founder and Chairman accepted the award on behalf of SIS Group of Schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the QS World University Rankings were published and the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) &#8211; 2 universities from Singapore &#8211; were ranked jointly as the 11th best universities in the world behind MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, CalTech, ETH Zurich, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial College London and Chicago, making them the best universities in Asia ahead of the likes of Tsinghua, Peking, Tokyo, Hong Kong and HKUST who are in the Top 30. This puts NUS and NTU in very prestigious company indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":10922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[136,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-sis-myanmar-blog-posts"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12990,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10921\/revisions\/12990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisschools.org\/sis-myanmar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}