Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of
the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. The broad goals of the
Centre are to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics education
from primary school to undergraduate college level, and encourage the growth
of scientific literacy in the country. To these ends it carries out a wide
spectrum of inter-related activities, which may be viewed under three broad
categories: (a) Research and Development, (b) Teacher Orientation and Science
Popularisation, and (c) Olympiads and other Students' Nurture Programmes.
Links to different activities are provided below.
Three decades after its inception, HBCSE has emerged as the premier institution
in the country for research and development in science, technology and mathematics
education. It is India's nodal centre for Olympiad programmes in Mathematics,
Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy.
HBCSE runs a Graduate School in Science Education. Students admitted to HBCSE
Graduate School work for the degree of Ph.D. in Science Education, which is
a degree of TIFR (Deemed University).
Graduate
Courses