Underpinning excellent pastoral and specialist support in higher education

Tailored training and consultancy in core areas of the management of student services, personal tutoring, safeguarding and mental health

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What we do

Plinth House is a training and consultancy company working with universities and other student-focused organisations in the higher education sector. We are passionate about helping people and organisations to deliver excellent support to students.

We deliver training to managers, teams and frontline staff in areas such as managing distressed students, mental health awareness, the management of serious student incidents, safeguarding, coaching skills, and change management. We also work with teams to re-model or review services, draft new policies based on best practice, and deliver ad hoc consultancy support.

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Our flagship courses

Fostering students' self-reliance using practical coaching skills

This practical course explores the nature of coaching, the GROW coaching model, how to frame effective coaching questions, and what a coaching approach looks like in practice when working with students.

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Ready-to-run training sessions

The easiest way to book live online delivery of our flagship training sessions for your organisation.

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Open-to-the-sector, live and online training events for our most popular training courses

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eLearning

Our most popular training on-demand, ready to roll-out to your organisation - free trial now available

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Our training approach

Drawing upon our own experience of leading university teams, our training is always practical in its approach.

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Our consultancy services

The key when bringing in external support – whether for a short-term or longer-term piece of work – is relevant sector experience.

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Upcoming live online events

Open to all colleagues with an interest in pastoral and specialist support in higher education

Coordinating actions and providing support following a student death: a half-day, online training event

Online - Microsoft Teams: £83 + VAT

20 May 2026

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All universities need to have clear procedures in place for responding to the death of a student, to make sure support is offered, in a timely and effective way, to those who need it. This half-day online session explores the key aspects of a university’s response to a student death.

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Hillsborough Law Bill: six key takeaways for higher education institutions following the introduction of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill

A quick update to share on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill - also referred to as the Hillsborough Law Bill - which has just been introduced to Parliament. The Bill is likely to have significant implications for how universities and HEIs engage with coroner's inquests in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and fatal accident inquiries in Scotland. Here are six important takeaways for the higher education sector from our reading of the Bill, as it was introduced at We

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Opportunity for colleagues in HE who are finding it tricky to access a training budget

In these challenging times for the higher education sector, we understand that getting budgetary approval to access training is not always easy. This is why, on each of our live online training courses, we continue to offer a very limited number of self-funded places at a significantly discount price – just £5 (including VAT) per place.

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New training snippet video: A practical exercise for when you are working with a student who is feeling overwhelmed or finding it hard to focus

When you're next working with a student who is overwhelmed or finding it hard to focus, try using this practical "three circles exercise'.

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