New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will soon planning to launch an academic networking site, along with a job portal and a repository of doctorate papers to check duplication and cheating.

AICTE Chairman, S. S. Mantha said that 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.

The networking site proposes to interconnect 7.5 million students enrolled across AICTE-approved institutions linked through email IDs. The yet to be christened networking site proposes to rope in faculty and industry stakeholders on to its database.

Mantha further added that its will also them 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.

The AICTE is also readying Project Factory, a repository aimed at capturing abstracts of all post graduate projects in an online bank. These abstracts of research work will be available to industry stakeholders and research labs so that those interested can easily contact the student concerned and take it forward.

The AICTE e-governance project envisages an employment 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 central database will link up with an industry database of 8,000 stakeholders and help facilitate the placement process.

The AICTE has launched a Live@edu on Thursday which is a hosted communication and collaboration service based on cloud computing — with Microsoft.