People often say this as if it was inevitable, and therefore that Business is the 'natural' home for universities. But of course there was a compound department for Education of all types and Science for decades. That had advantages as well as disadvantages. (1/) https://twitter.com/mike_rat/status/1291689466835460096

Putting HE into Business has disadvantages as well as advantages. My experience of BIS/BEIS civil servants is that they viewed HE as part of Science and Science as most important for the labour market. (2/)

There's no a priori reason why you can't reshape departmental cultures so that all forms of Education (including adult) can be treated as one continuous web. (3/)

Among other things, breaking down Gyimah's 'compulsory/non-compulsory' division would help FE get taken more seriously. FE colleges aren't 'schools' either and, worse, they fall between stools. (4/)

Of course Gyimah grew up in a Conservative political culture where it made sense to think of HE as 'Business', and it will for some time to come. But if we want to rehabilitate in future a different idea of Education, then keeping HE in Business may not make sense forever. (5/5)

PS Gyimah's last answer in the OP says he brought private-sector expertise into his department to make it more 'entrepreneurial and creative'. Why not bring HE expertise itself in? Why assume that the future likes in making HE more like generic 'private-sector' businesses?