Exclusive: National Film and Television School introduces fully accessible accommodation and bursary scheme at its Beaconsfield campus
For a long time, physically disabled students who dreamed of studying at the UK’s most prestigious film and TV production school had nowhere to stay in the local area. And when they commuted, they would encounter hundreds of inaccessible areas on campus.
In an industry where just 12% of TV employees are disabled, compared with 18% in the labour market as a whole, something had to change.
To remedy this, from 2027, the National Film and Television School will offer nine new fully accessible rooms, enabling physically disabled students to live and study on its Buckinghamshire campus for the first time, with their living costs fully covered.
Hamish Thompson, NFTS disability advocate, said the new rooms and bursary would be “massively transformative” for disabled people.
