Schools minister Nick Gibb sets out his timetable for educational reform in 2015

This is a year of historic anniversaries: 800 years since the signing of Magna Carta, 600 years since the Battle of Agincourt, and the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. Sadly, these seminal events will mean little to many young people. A 2009 survey of undergraduates conducted by Professor Derek Matthews of Cardiff University found that 83 per cent of his students did not know that Wellington led the British and their allies to victory at Waterloo and 88 per cent could not name a single 19