porvorim calling on the church especially the diocese of goa to prepare a vision 2030 for higher education in the state educationist newman fernandes said that the church must create more institutions of a high calibre in order to prepare students not just for goa but for the whole world fernandes was speaking at the history hour organized by the xavier institute of historical research porvorim where he spoke on higher education and the role of the church in it when there was scope to provide students with institution of repute the church was silent and inactive when are we going to come out of this pause phase fernandes questioned in the new conquest pernem bicholim satari ponda quepem sanguem and canacona our presence is not found at all goa has five government run colleges offering arts science and commerce streams the goa diocese on the other hand runs two collegesst xaviers in mapusa and rosary college in navelim the other churchaffiliated institutes are carmel college in nuvem and don boscos college in the capital nirmala institute at altinho offers courses pertaining to school education for the engineering course students have an option between don bosco college of engineering at fatorda and padre conceicao college of engineering at verna the exprincipal of st xaviers college mapusa also called for greater lay collaboration in churchrun educational institutions governance and competence are a priority and a priest or a nonpriest as long as they are competent can run institutions fernandes said if the present attitude does not change then we will pay the price for it pointing out that most of todays educated youth are unemployable fernandes said that relevant courses along with a high calibre of teaching are a must more than plain teaching learning has to take place fernandes the former principal of rosary college emphasized fernandes went on to point out a few challenges that face the church in its mission to form society some of them being quality of governance access to high education development of human resources proper research an initiation of academic culture and a studentcentric approach the church must identify talent at the school level and support and nurture the talent in order to develop not only future leaders but human resources for our institutions fernandes said he also encouraged the use of technology and online platforms in education institutions fernandes pointed out the poor gross enrolment rate in the country we find out that as of today only 20 people of the relevant age bracket are in higher education 80 of people in the age bracket of 1825 are outside higher education fernandes said unesco describes the gross enrolment rate as the total enrolment within a country in a specific level of education regardless of age and is expressed as a percentage of the population in the official age group corresponding to this level of education deputy director of higher education remy dias moderated the session