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. Activities
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, and
- Olympiads and other Students' Nurture Programmes.
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. Graduate School
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).
The centre has a free software lab called gnowledge.org which is actively promoting, supporting the use and spread of free software in India and abraod. The lab maintains a knowledge networking portal and develops and maintains a collaborative course authoring platform called SELF Platform. Most of the development work of the lab uses gnowsys, a semantic web ready knowledge networking and organizing system.