The Global WHED IDs, the only unique identifiers available for HEIs at the global level, have now been included in ETER. Among 2,688 HEIs listed in ETER for the reference year 2019, 1,977 now include a Global WHED ID – that is almost all universities in ETER representing more than 95% of the undergraduate and PhD students in ETER. The WHED IDs are included under ‘basic descriptors’ in the ETER database alongside other important identifiers such as the Research Organization Register identifiers (ROR) the Erasmus charter codes and the DEQAR identifiers. Matching identifiers is essential to allow users combine different datasets without recurring to manual name matching with all its imprecisions.
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