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How
micro-credentials
offered
by
B.C.
post-
secondary
institutions
can
help
those
looking
to
advance
in
their
careers
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The Kiwi transplant is a senior manager
for project delivery at Stemcell Technolo-
gies Inc., a Vancouver-based company that
sells biotech products to scientists world-
wide. He completed his third degree in
2016—an
MBA from Victoria University of
Wellington in New Zealand—after earning
two bachelor's degrees. Since immigrating
to Canada in 2017, he's finished two cer-
tificates through the executive education
program at
UBC Sauder School of Business,
and is now working on another through
Sauder's continuing studies program.
Why so much schooling? For the same
reason he came to Canada, Reuhman
explains: to give himself opportunities
to do bigger and better things. His previ-
ous employer, Seaspan
ULC in North Van-
couver, operates shipyards at a size and
scale impossible to find at home. "You just
couldn't get opportunities like that in New
Zealand," he says.
He also adds to his education as a
way to keep opening new doors. Each
degree or certificate helps him take on
more senior, more exciting new roles. His
A d o b e S t o c k / F o t o G r a p h i c
IT'S EARLY JANUARY, AND MOST UBC STUDENTS ARE SHAKING OFF THE SLUG-
gishness and hangovers they've dragged in from their winter breaks.
The pace on campus (and off-campus, online) is slowly warming
toward the frenzied hustle of mid-semester cramming. But Ben
Reuhman avoids scholastic lulls—he never stops learning.
