Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

19.042337°N 72.928266°E / 19.042337; 72.928266

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

HBCSE Building
Type	Research Institution
Established	1983
Founder	Dr. Raghunath G. Lagu, V. G. Kulkarni
Director	Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya
Location	Mumbai , India
Campus	Urban
Website	www.hbcse.tifr.res.in

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. The broad goals of the institute 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 India.^[1][2] To these ends it carries out a wide spectrum of inter-related activities, which may be viewed under three broad categories:

• Research and development,
• Teacher orientation and science popularisation
• Olympiads and other students' nurture programmes

It is India's nodal centre for Olympiad programmes in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology^[3] and astronomy. Another major program of HBCSE is the National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS).

HBCSE runs a graduate school in science and mathematics 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).

Notable staff

Centre Director:^[4]

Term	Member	Notes
1974–1994	V. G. Kulkarni	Founder Director, began his career in 1953 at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai[5]
1994–2008	Arvind Kumar	2nd Director, from Maharashtra, India, won the Padma Shri Award in 2011 for his contributions in the field of literature and education[6]
2008–2011	Dr. Hemchandra Chintamani Pradhan	3rd Director, since July 2012, Pradhan has been associated, as a Raja Ramanna Fellow of the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India[7]
2011–2016	Jayashree Ramadas	4th Director[8]
2016	K. Subramaniam	5th Director[9]