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. 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 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: Term Member Notes 1974–1994 V. G. Kulkarni Founder Director, began his career in 1953 at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 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 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 2011–2016 Jayashree Ramadas 4th Director 2016 K. Subramaniam 5th Director
Achievements: European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad At the 15th edition of European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad held in Bordeaux, France in April 2026, Shreya Shantanu Mundhada became the first Indian to win a gold medal at EGMO, as India secured its best-ever team ranking of 6th place among 67 participating countries, winning one gold, one silver, and one bronze medal
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External links
Mathematics Education Research, HBCSE, Mumbai India Small Science - Homi Bhabha Curriculum for Primary Science Hindi Learning Portal - HBCSE National Initiative on Undergraduate Science - HBCSE Olympiad Programme - HBCSE, India Asian Science Camp - 2010 International Physics Olympiad, 2015, India Collaborative Learning Portal, HBCSE