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Preet Gill
Preet Kaur Gill (born 21 November 1972) is a British Labour Co-op politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston since 2017. She served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development between April 2020 and September 2023 and as Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health between 6 September 2023 and 4 July 2024. She is the first female British Sikh MP. Early life and career Preet Kaur Gill was born on 21 November 1972 in Edgbaston, Birmingham. She was born to Indian parents Daljit Singh Shergill and Kuldeep Kaur Shergill. Her father was a foreman, and later a bus driver, and her mother worked as a seamstress. Daljit Singh was the longest serving president of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick, the first gurdwara in the United Kingdom. Gill credits her father and Baron Tarsem King of West Bromwich as her main inspirations for her ambition to enter politics. She has six younger siblings. Her early education was at Lordswood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour And Co-operative Party
Labour and Co-operative Party (often abbreviated to Labour Co-op; ) is a description used by candidates in United Kingdom elections who stand on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party. Candidates contest elections under an electoral alliance between the two parties, which was first agreed in 1927. This agreement recognises the independence of the two parties and commits them to not standing against each other in elections. It also sets out the procedures for both parties to select joint candidates and collaborate at a local and national level. There were 43 Labour and Co-operative Party MPs elected at the July 2024 election, making it both the largest number of MPs ever elected under the Labour Co-op banner, and the fourth largest political grouping in the House of Commons, although Labour and Co-operative MPs are generally included in Labour totals. The chair of the Co-operative Parliamentary Group is Preet Gill and the vice-chair is Jim McMahon. Descripti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kibbutz
A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including Factory, industrial plants and high-tech Business, enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been Privatization, privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a ''kibbutznik'' ( / ; plural ''kibbutznikim'' or ''kibbutzniks''), the suffix ''-nik'' being of Slavic languages, Slavic origin. In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel with a total population of 126,000. Their factories and farms account for 9% of Israel's industrial output, worth US$8 billion, and 40% of its agricultural output, worth over US$1.7 billion. Some kibbutzim had also developed substantial high-tech and mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Work
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work practice draws from liberal arts, social science, and interdisciplinary areas such as psychology, sociology, health, political science, community development, law, and economics to engage with systems and policies, conduct assessments, develop interventions, and enhance social functioning and responsibility. The ultimate goals of social work include the improvement of people's lives, alleviation of biopsychosocial concerns, empowerment of individuals and communities, and the achievement of social justice. Social work practice is often divided into three levels. Micro-work involves working directly with individuals and families, such as providing individual counseling/therapy or assisting a family in accessing services. Mezzo-work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Undergraduate Degree Classification
The British undergraduate degree classification system is a Grading in education, grading structure used for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and Master's degree#Integrated Masters Degree, integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom. The system has been applied, sometimes with significant variation, in other countries and regions. The UK's university degree classification system, established in 1918, serves to recognize academic achievement beyond examination performance. Bachelor's degrees in the UK can either be honours or ordinary degrees, with honours degrees classified into First Class, Upper Second Class (2:1), Lower Second Class (2:2), and Third Class based on weighted averages of marks. The specific thresholds for these classifications can vary by institution. Integrated master's degrees follow a similar classification, and there is some room for discretion in awarding final classifications based on a student's overall performance and work quality. The hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bournville College
Bournville College is a further education college based in Longbridge, Birmingham, England. The college offers courses that include A Levels, BTECs, NVQs, apprenticeships, and bespoke qualifications. History The college was established in 1913 by George Cadbury to cater for education for the local population that included the workforce of the nearby Cadbury chocolate and confectionery factory, and was named Bournville College from 1949. In 1972, the college was relocated to Bristol Road (), into premises that had been part of City of Birmingham Polytechnic. Further expansion took place during the 1970s, and in 2011, the college occupied its new purpose-built campus in Longbridge with a capacity for 15,000 students and 4.2 acres of grounds on the site of the former MG Rover automobile factory that closed in 2005. In 2014, the college announced it would open a training centre in India as part of plans to strengthen ties between Britain and India. As Bournville already have an of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lordswood Girls' School
King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls and The Sixth Form Centre is a secondary school and sixth form on Knightlow Road in Birmingham between Harborne and Bearwood. History It was established in 1958 as a grammar technical school (as was the neighbouring boys' school from 1962, although it opened in 1957), whereby entrance was governed by doing well in an entrance exam ( 11-plus). In 1973 it became a comprehensive school. In September 2005 it became a specialist Arts College. The school converted to academy status in April 2011. On 1 June 2012, Lordswood had their grand opening of their new science block. This was officially opened by Gisela Stuart MP. In January 2013, Lordswood Boys' School also converted to academy status and joined Lordswood Girls' School as part of Lordswood Academies Trust. In July 2017 Lordswood Boys' School left Lordswood Academies Trust after an extended period in Special Measures after being rated Inadequate in multiple Ofsted inspections an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarsem King, Baron King Of West Bromwich
Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich (c. 1937 - 9 January 2013) was a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. He was born in India and he was the first Sikh member of the House of Lords. King served as Councillor on Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council from 1979 to 2007; he was a deputy mayor from 1982 to 1983. He was created a life peer on 22 July 1999 as Baron King of West Bromwich, ''of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands''. From 1999 to 2003 he was a member of the Hybrid Instruments Committee. After 2006 he was Treasurer of the All-party parliamentary group on India. He was a member of National Advisory Group for Gun Control of National Police Service and President of the Black Country Housing and Community Services Group. He was also the Patron of the Universal Peace Federation which is an affiliate of the Unification Church The Unification Church () is a new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists or sometim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurdwara
A gurdwara or gurudwara () is a place of assembly and place of worship, worship in Sikhism, but its normal meaning is "place of guru" or "home of guru". Sikhism, Sikhs also refer to gurdwaras as ''Gurdwara Sahib''. People from all faiths and religions are welcomed in gurdwaras. Each gurdwara has a ''Darbar Sahib Hall, Darbar Sahib'' where the Guru Granth Sahib is placed on a (an elevated throne) in a prominent central position. Any congregant (sometimes with specialized training, in which case they are known by the term granthi) may recite, sing, and explain the verses from the Guru Granth Sahib, in the presence of the rest of the congregation. All gurdwaras have a hall, where people can eat free lacto-vegetarian food served by volunteers at the gurdwara. They may also have a medical facility room, library, nursery, classroom, meeting rooms, playground, sports ground, a gift shop, and finally a repair shop. A gurdwara can be identified from a distance by tall flagpoles bearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick
Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick (ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਸਮੈਦਿਕ) is a Sikh ''gurdwara'' in Smethwick, in Sandwell, near Birmingham in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It was established in October 1958 in a former church building which had been bought earlier in the year at a cost of £11,600. References Further reading *Webster, Len. ''The Turban-Wallah: a tale of Little India''. Oxford: OUP, 1984. *"People to People Week - the Sikhs," ''Warley News'', 11 November 1965 {{coord, 52.4958, -1.9714, display=title Gurdwaras in England Religious buildings and structures in the West Midlands (county) Smethwick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seamstress
A dressmaker, also known as a seamstress, is a person who makes clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. Dressmakers were historically known as mantua-makers, and are also known as a modiste or fabrician. Notable dressmakers * Cristóbal Balenciaga * Pierre Balmain *Coco Chanel *Christian Dior * David Emanuel * Norman Hartnell, royal dressmaker * Elizabeth Keckley, modiste and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln * Jean Muir, fashion designer * Madame Palmyre, a favorite designer and dressmaker of Eugénie, empress of France * Anna and Laura Tirocchi, Providence, Rhode Island * Isabel Toledo * Madeleine Vionnet * R'Bonney Gabriel, fashion designer and beauty queen of Miss Universe 2022 * Mak Tumang, fashion designer * Michael Cinco, fashion designer * Janet Walker, costumier and dress-making-bust inventor * Charles Frederick Worth Related terms * "Dressmaker" denotes clothing made in the style of a dressmaker, frequently in the term "dressmaker detai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daljit Singh Shergill
Daljit Singh Shergill ( Punjabi: ਦਲਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ੇਰਗਿੱਲ, died 6 October 2014), known as Shergill Sahib, was a Sikh leader from Punjab, India, who was president of the first ''gurdwara'' in the UK. He immigrated to the West Midlands in the early 1960s. He became president of Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick in 1984 and led the community for 20 years. He died in Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham on 6 October 2014, age 70. His daughter Preet Gill became Britain's first female Sikh MP in 2017, when she won the election in the constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston. As of 2024, she serves as the Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health. See also * Sikhism in England English Sikhs number over 520,000 people and account for 0.9% of England's population in 2021, forming the country's fourth-largest religious group. In 2006 there were 352 gurdwaras in England. The largest Sikh populations in the U.K. are in the ... References External linksWe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
