Search help
The main site search can understand a variety of additional commands which may help you to find what you are looking for.
Keyword phrases
You can surround search phrases with quotation marks to limit your search only to a specific phrase rather than all keywords.
For example
"Diploma programme"
NOT
Diploma programme
Excluded terms
You can use - to exclude keywords. This is useful if you're getting recurring results (e.g from our school section)
For example
Diploma Programme -schools
Field commands
Field commands can limit your search to particular content fields. You should not leave any spaces between the field command and the keyword.
For example:
title:school
NOT
title: school
Available commands:
- title: in the title (no spaces, e.g. title:school)
- url: in the URL
- site: in the site name
- link: in a link
- imagelink: in an image link
- alt: in image alt text
- description: in the description
- keywords: in the keywords
- anchor: in remote anchor text
Happy searching...if you come across any more, get in touch
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If you cannot find the answer to your question on this frequently asked questions (FAQ) page or by using the site search facility, please contact us.
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