Website Search Quick Tips and Examples

It's easy to search for content on our website, just type in a few words or phrases that you are looking for into the search box which appears at the top right of every page.

Once you have typed in the word or phrase, click search.

Entering the right search terms is key to finding the information you want.

Our search looks for pages and documents containing as many of these words and phrases you have searched for as possible.

The results returned are ranked so that the pages and documents most relevant to your query are presented first.

Don't worry about missing a page or document because it doesn't have one of the words in your search -- our search facility will return relevant results even if they don't contain all your query terms.

Example Search: education curriculum development

Excluded Characters

Unfortunately we have had to exclude certain characters from being used in the website search as they could make our website vulnerable to security attacks.  We are not listing the excluded characters as this could help those attacking our website.

If you use one of the excluded characters in your search it is removed and the search is performed using the rest of the search string provided.
e.g. If # is an exluded character then 'number#1' is changed to 'number1' and then search results for the string 'number1' are provided.

We do not expect that this will effect many people who use this site however if you have a trouble finding content because of excluded characters then please contact us;

Our search technology has a simple query syntax which enables you to enhance the results returned without having to remember complex queries.

The table below shows examples of the different techniques you can use to improve your search results.

The search includes pages/documents from the following:

The search does not include pages/documents from the following: