{"id":667,"date":"2012-12-14T07:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T07:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=667"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:25:50","slug":"3-useful-searches-for-finding-out-about-school-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/12\/3-useful-searches-for-finding-out-about-school-management\/","title":{"rendered":"3 useful searches for finding out about school management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/12\/3-useful-searches-for-finding-out-about-school-management\/\" data-text=\"3 useful searches for finding out about school management\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2012%2F12%2F3-useful-searches-for-finding-out-about-school-management%2F&#038;text=3%20useful%20searches%20for%20finding%20out%20about%20school%20management\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>Here are three simple uses of <strong>advanced search techniques<\/strong> that can help you find out more about how a school is run:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=%22senior+management+team%22+site%3Asch.uk\">&#8220;Senior management team&#8221; site:sch.uk<\/a><\/strong> will look for pages that mention <em>the exact phrase <\/em>&#8220;senior management team&#8221; on school websites. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolhosting.co.uk\/school_domain_names\/\">Only schools can have a website\u00a0ending with .sch.uk<\/a>, and\u00a0&#8220;senior management team&#8221; is a particular piece of jargon that refers to people with specific <strong>responsibilities<\/strong> at a school.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=board+meeting+minutes+site%3Asch.uk\"><strong>Board meeting minutes site:sch.uk<\/strong><\/a> will look for pages that mention those words on school websites. There are no quotation marks here because we don&#8217;t want to match an exact phrase &#8211; results include &#8220;board of governors&#8221; and &#8220;minutes of board meeting&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=%22cluster+meeting%22+site%3Asch.uk\"><strong>&#8220;Cluster meeting&#8221; site:sch.uk<\/strong><\/a> will look for pages on school websites that mention that particular exact phrase &#8211; more jargon to refer to meetings that teachers, governors and the senior management team participate in to share information, skills and knowledge <a href=\"http:\/\/recap.ltd.uk\/wiki\/XK1\/Meetings\">between schools and other bodies<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=%22cluster+group%22+site%3Asch.uk\">try &#8220;cluster group&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolclusters.com\/#What\">explained here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How does this work?<\/h2>\n<p>The above searches use three core techniques of advanced searching:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Putting phrases in quotation marks<\/strong> restricts results to pages that contain that exact phrase, rather than pages that might contain those words spread around the page.<\/li>\n<li>Using the <strong>site:<\/strong> operator restricts results to pages on websites that end in the domain you add<em>\u00a0<\/em>on the end. <em>Site:uk<\/em> would limit results to sites that end in .uk (including .co.uk, .nhs.uk and so on). <em>Site:sch.uk<\/em> limits results to sites that end in &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; .sch.uk. And <em>site:bham.sch.uk<\/em> would only give us results from schools in that particular area. You can even use this to specify a specific school website, or what are called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Domain_name#Second-level_and_lower_level_domains\">fourth level domains<\/a>&#8216;, like\u00a0<em>chadvale.bham.sch.uk<\/em>. Note that there is no space after the colon.<\/li>\n<li>Using jargon that <em>we expect to find used on the page we want\u00a0<\/em>means we are more likely to find it than if we simply searched for\u00a0<em>what we want<\/em>. All industries have their own jargon, and taking the time to find out about it will save you much more time in tracking down the information you want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px\">There&#8217;s also another technique which we haven&#8217;t used: <strong>limiting results by type of file<\/strong>. You can do this with\u00a0<strong>filetype:<\/strong> &#8211; for example if we expected to find information in a PDF (such as a report) then\u00a0<em>filetype:pdf<\/em> would only give us PDFs in the results. For spreadsheets, word documents and Powerpoint presentations you would use\u00a0<em>filetype:xls, filetype:doc <\/em>and<em> filetype:ppt\u00a0<\/em>respectively.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Do you have any more tips or jargon that would be useful to people trying to find out how schools work?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetHere are three simple uses of advanced search techniques that can help you find out more about how a school is run: &#8220;Senior management team&#8221; site:sch.uk will look for pages that mention the exact phrase &#8220;senior management team&#8221; on school &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/12\/3-useful-searches-for-finding-out-about-school-management\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[331,333,336,335,334,332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}