Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

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  • 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]

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External links

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