Joel Matthew - Beyond Academics

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, we have Joel Matthew from Beyond Academics to change how we see the education system as we know. Join us and learn more about their company Beyond Academics. </span></p> <p><strong>[6:00] Why should anybody pay attention to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The system is broken, we made a way to change the basic education. What we are doing is set a new landscape on what people are doing.</span></p> <p><strong>[8:25] Do kids need to go to college? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now things are different, kids change the way they want to be from what kids way back want to be. Some dreams do not require formal education. </span></p> <p><strong>[11:55] What do you see education going towards?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the pandemic, schools and universities had to go digital which made them more like a zoom university. Universities are not going to survive if they are not going to adapt to technology. </span></p> <p><strong>[13:50] What about educators? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Educators need to adapt on how the technology goes. Comfortability is one of the reasons why educators fail to innovate on how things go. </span></p> <p><strong>[16:47] Beyond Academics</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It revolves to 4 areas; one is consultancy, second aspect is Leadership, having people engaged third aspect is building up an authentic community and the fourth thing is incubator, looking to the project into entrepreneurial. </span></p> <p><strong>[22:59] Where do you hope the company would become like? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope to change the universities think. We can help universities think more “entrepreneur-ly”</span></p> <p><strong>[25:10] What was God’s promise to the world when he made you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To change the world, God made me to change the world.</span></p> <p><strong>Keynotes </strong></p>