The Prize for Women’ and Girls’s Schooling has performed an important function in selling gender equality in training, stated Khaled El-Enany, director-general of United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO).
China and UNESCO collectively established the Prize for Women’ and Girls’s Schooling in 2015. It’s the group’s solely prize for selling women’ and ladies’s training, which performs an important function in publicizing the idea of gender equality in training and associated good practices and in implementing gender equality as a world precedence.
“This prize is an important one. It has been there since 2015, and it allowed laureates from across the globe (to be acknowledged). It helps initiative that supported the training of ladies, girls all over the world, as there are greater than 130 million women out of faculty. With regards to STEM (science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic) training, they’re underrepresented in scientific fields as effectively, so it is a huge precedence,” stated El-Enany in an interview with China Central Tv (CCTV), which aired Friday.
UNESCO chief reiterates significance of prize for women’, girls’s training
The United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO) goals to deepen its cooperation with China throughout all fields, thereby reinforcing its partnership with the International South as a complete, stated UNESCO director-general Khaled El-Enany.
El-Enany visited China’s Hangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai from Might 11 to 14, his fourth time within the nation and first time as UNESCO director-general. Talking with CCTV in Beijing in the course of the go to, he highlighted the importance of cooperation with China, noting that the partnership goes past the bilateral scope.
“I am right here to deepen the partnership, the very robust and well-established partnership with China, one of many huge companions to UNESCO. And while you cope with China, I feel it is past a bilateral relationship. We’re coping with the worldwide South. We’re working with China in all of the fields of competence of UNESCO – in training, science, tradition, communication, info. Since I arrived at UNESCO in November 2025, I am constructing a really robust partnership along with your everlasting delegation at UNESCO, a really energetic one,” El-Enany stated in an interview that aired on Friday.
In Hangzhou, the UNESCO chief attended the opening and the plenary session of the 2026 World Digital Schooling Convention. He described the assembly as fruitful when it comes to consensus-building.
“We [all agreed] that digital transformation and utilizing AI [in education] is a should, but it surely should complement what human beings are doing. It have to be moral, equitable and inclusive,” he stated.
El-Enany highlighted his assembly with Chinese language President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Might 12.
“He reiterated his robust dedication to intercultural dialogue, to mutual studying among the many civilizations. And this resonated [with] what he had stated at UNESCO in his historic go to in 2014 to UNESCO in March, which may be very aligned with the mandate of UNESCO – to construct peace within the minds of ladies and men and to defend peace by way of training, science and tradition,” stated the director-general.
UNESCO chief pledges stronger cooperation with China throughout all fields
