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The Faces of SUSS
At SUSS, education isn't just about lectures and exams - it's about unlocking purpose.
Get inspired by four SUSS students and alumni who transformed their aspirations into achievements with SUSS.
KEVIN SEE
Master of Social Work
Director, Integrated Family Services, Montfort Care
The Curriculum Taught Him Social Work. His Classmates Taught Him Endurance
Kevin See spent most of his life studying what society expected of him. The decision to change came at a community meeting, when he tried to speak up for children about to lose their only gathering space and someone stopped him: “Who are you? What’s your qualification?” He knew then that if he was serious about this work, he needed to study social work.
Getting through it was another story. Completing his Master of Social Work part-time at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) between 2015 and 2018 meant full days at work, evenings on assignments, and Saturdays in class. Still, he knew exactly why he was there – go to SUSS for learning that keeps you grounded in practice.
Professors like Associate Professor Vincent Ng and Dr Jai Prakash, both active leaders in the sector, made the classroom feel like an extension of the field. Dr Jai’s mentorship continued even after graduation, guiding Kevin through a major career crossroads and connecting him to Montfort Care, where he now serves as Director of Integrated Family Service.
Today, Kevin has returned to SUSS as an associate faculty, giving back in the same way others once did for him.
VALERY TAN
Bachelor of Human Resource Management with Minor
Co-Founder, Surety Singapore
She Didn’t Wait to Have Everything Figured Out.
Valery Tan spent two years after polytechnic doing what many wouldn't – deliberately not rushing into university. Instead, she worked across pharmacy, financial advisory, and accounting, using that time to better understand herself before committing to a path.
When she enrolled in Human Resource Management at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), she wasn't just looking for a degree. She wanted a learning environment that felt practical, flexible, and grounded in real-world experience. Through the Venture Builder programme, she found her first real opportunity to test an idea, hear honest feedback, and slowly build confidence in something that initially felt uncertain.
That idea became Surety Singapore, a social impact startup focused on menopause and midlife wellness, topics that are still rarely discussed openly in Asia.
Valery understood the irony. She was in her 20s, speaking about issues most people associate with older women, often in rooms where people questioned whether she belonged there. She stayed anyway and kept building.
Today, Surety Singapore works with communities, corporates, and Social Service Agencies to bring menopause and midlife conversations into spaces where they have long been overlooked.
Progress, she says, comes from trying, failing, refining, and continuing anyway. That hasn’t changed.
VIMEL RAJOO
Master of Social Work
Director, Corporate Services and Development Group,
SHINE Children and Youth Services
He Never Planned to Lead. He Just Kept Serving.
Vimels path into youth work began in secondary school – packing food hampers, fundraising for strangers, and being mentored by a Boys' Brigade officer who showed him what it meant to invest in someone younger than yourself. He never forgot that feeling.
By the time he enrolled in the Master of Social Work programme at SUSS, he was already working in the sector. But he felt there was more he needed to understand. SUSS helped bridge that gap – lecturers who are active practitioners, modules grounded in real work, lessons he could immediately connect to what he saw on the ground.
Over time, he realised that meaningful change doesn’t only happen through direct work with youth. Stronger systems and better leadership matter just as much to the people being served.
Today he leads as Director of Corporate Services and Development Group at SHINE Children and Youth Services. But the moments that stay with him have little to do with the title. They’re the boys who grew up and came back – calling out across a room, reminding him of a snack he once gave or a late night he stayed to listen. Small moments he’d long forgotten but they never did. This is what keeps him going.
JONATHAN PANG
Bachelor of Law
What He Built After Everything Fell Apart.
Jonathan Pang was 21 when he went to prison. At 29, he opened his second business and was into his third year of law school at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).
It was a prison officer who first pushed him toward the A-Level examinations. Jonathan resisted for years, only agreeing in his final year behind bars. He studied through a Covid lockdown, borrowed notes from seniors to keep up, and worked through the night long after everyone else had gone to sleep. He came out with straight As.
But it was what he heard inside that set his direction. Inmates spoke badly about the lawyers who had handled their cases. Their frustration stayed with him.
NUS rejected his application. SMU didn't consider it. A lawyer eventually reached out and helped him find his way to SUSS, where lecturers and classmates focused on his potential and gave him a sense of belonging.
At the same time, he started selling aquarium fish from home, a hobby shared with his late father. Demand grew fast. By 2024, a retail shop. By 2025, a second store.
He attends classes at night, runs both businesses during the day, and studies till 5am.
He plans to practise law when he graduates, alongside the businesses. He is not done yet, not even close.
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