European Tertiary Education Register: Introductory course
Description
The aim of this course is to disseminate the use of the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) facility among researchers interested in its exploitation for the purposes of analysis of higher education systems.
ETER is a facility funding by the European Commission (DG EAC) which provides a census of Higher Education Institutions in Europe, including basic information on organizational characteristics, educational and research activities, as well as staff and finances of HEIs. It covers most European Union countries, as well as well as a few non-EU countries (Iceland, Norway, Switzerland) and provides data for the year 2011.
Experience with the ETER predecessor EUMIDA showed that these data are highly helpful for a range of topics in research policies and higher education, including analysis of efficiency of HEIs, studies of diversity of higher education systems and of differentiation processes, analyses of research specialization and internationalization of HEIs. Also, current work in RISIS is demonstrating the potential of this dataset for matching with other data sources, including bibliometric data, webometrics data and data on participation to European programs.
In this context, the course will pursue the following goals:
- Provide a general presentation of the ETER database and its methodological concepts.
- Provide guidance on the use of ETER and how to deal with comparability issues.
- Provide examples of exploitation of the database for research policy purposes.
- Provide practical training on the use of the ETER dataset.