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- To use the postcode search facility, key in your own postcode or that of the area in which
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- you are looking for a school. Enter the full postcode if you know it. The search engine will
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- also operate ΓÇô although less precisely ΓÇô on the basis of the first half of a given postcode.
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- You can select the number of schools you wish to view (from 10 to 50), the type of
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- school (state secondary, independent secondary, state primary etc) and the gender of
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- entry for each search. Click Search Now and the CD-Rom will generate a list of schools
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- according to your precise specification on the basis of proximity to the postcode you
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- have entered.
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- If you are unsure of the postcodes in the area in which you are interested, you can use
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- the town search facility. Simply type in the name of the town you are interested in,
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- together with the number of schools you wish to view, the type(s) of school, and the
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- gender of entry. Click Search Now and the CD-Rom will generate a list of schools located
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- in the town or containing the town in it postal address.
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- To use the map, click on the required local area. This will highlight your selection in the
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- local area display in the middle of the screen. You can either click Search Now, which will
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- produce a list of all schools in the area you have defined, or you can refine your search
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- using the school type and gender of entry drop-down menus as above.
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- For broader geographic searches, click on the region tab on the menu in the centre of
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- the screen. This will offer you a choice of seven English regions, or national searches for
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- Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The local areas contained within each search will
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- be highlighted on the map to the right.
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- You can click Search Now for a list of all schools in the region you have defined (but be
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- warned, this may be a very large number), or to refine your search you can select the
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- tope of school and the gender of entry that is of interest to you.
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- Once you have found the schools you are looking for, you can save them to a personal
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- shortlist by clicking on the Save button on the search result or the underlying school
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- profile page.
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- You can modify your search at any point by clicking on the modify search button to the
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- left of the schools listed on your search results page. This will return you to your original
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- search selection which can then be amended to perform either a completely new search
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- or a refinement of an existing one. Clicking on the search button on the main navigation
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- bar will achieve the same effect.