I am a disabled student studying at Kings who cannot access my department.
You may not know this if you are an able-bodied person, but Kings is very inaccessible for someone in a wheelchair. I cannot even access rooms in my own department due to this.
There are many issues around the lack of care and support for disabled students at Kings, but there is one in particular that I would like to draw your attention to:
I have been fighting for over a YEAR for a simple ramp to be put in over a couple of steps so that I can have access to my lecture rooms. The uni have failed to do this. Nothing has been done in the year I've been fighting, and there are no plans to place a ramp either. This means half of the rooms in my own department are out-of-bounds for me (and only me. Every single other course mate of mine, that I'm aware of, is able to access these rooms whenever they like). The only difference between us? I use a wheelchair. I can also only access a handful of practise rooms, whereas other students can access all 30+.
The fact that Kings won't even fit a ramp, despite my constant requests, says a lot about how much they value disabled students.
I understand that change takes time, but disabled students do not deserve this discrimination. We need to start making changes now.
If you agree and want to help your fellow disabled students, both those studying now and those who will come in the future, then please sign this petition and show that we will not just sit and let this discrimination happen (well, I will be sitting...in my wheelchair...but you get the point)!
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