In a first of its kind initiative, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will soon be launching academic networking site, along with a job portal and a repository of doctorate papers to check duplication and cheating.
The academic networking site proposes to interconnect 7.5 million students enrolled across AICTE-approved institutions linked through email IDs. The site will also have faculty and industry stakeholders on its database.
“The idea is to encourage academic networking and facilitate peer learning. That faculty will be accessible on this network, and help with course material, share charts, diagrams, data and projects that can aid learning, will make this an altogether knowledge building mechanism,” said the chairman of AICTE, SS Mantha.
The apex technical educational regulator is also working on ‘Project Factory’ - a repository aimed at capturing abstracts of all post graduate projects in an online bank. This data will be available to industry stakeholders and research labs so that those interested can easily contact the student concerned and take it forward.
“It will also help us check large-scale cheating and cut-copy-paste jobs that are seen in a number of research papers. A search engine on Project Factory will be able to quickly throw up abstracts of research works of interest to anyone,” Mantha added.
Meanwhile, in order to help students in gaining employment, AICTE will also put in place a job portal that proposes to store every student’s semester-wise results online and link it with his CV. This CV will automatically be forwarded to industry HRD heads whenever there is a vacancy suited to the student. This portal will be linked with an industry database of 8,000 stakeholders.
[Source: Indian Express]
