Secondary Education Project

An initiative supported by The Convergence Foundation

About the Secondary Education Project (SEP):

The Secondary Education Project is supported by The Convergence Foundation and is a non-profit organization focused on middle secondary education systemic reforms in India.

While India has expanded access and improved early-grade learning, secondary education remains a critical weak link with many young people leaving school without the skills, exposure, or confidence needed to navigate diverse life and career pathways.

This is a pivotal moment to act. The NEP provides robust momentum for school complexes, competency-based and modular assessments, vocational pathways, and holistic progress cards. At the same time, India is in a narrow demographic dividend window. Over the next decade, tens of millions of young people will pass through secondary school and what they learn, how they learn, and how their readiness is signalled will shape India's workforce, productivity, and social mobility for a generation.





Our North Star is to make secondary education relevant, effective, and a credible signal of readiness ensuring every young person in India is prepared for life, work, and further learning. Our early focus is on system-level levers with outsized potential for impact: enabling integrated schools / complexes that provide a min. viable school access to all students with specialist teachers, diverse subject choices, and better infrastructure; advancing NEP-aligned board and assessment reforms that incentivise practical learning and credible skill signalling and driving evidence backed advocacy of programs building life and work readiness in grades 6-12. We will work with states to build proof points, influence national and state policy pathways, convene key partners, and build momentum for scalable, durable reform across the secondary education ecosystem.

Role Overview:

The Secondary Education Project (SEP) at the Convergence Foundation i

📌 State Lead (Lucknow)
🏢 Accelerate Indian Philanthropy
📍 Lucknow