Sir Shapurji Bilimoria Foundation's Teacher Education Centre

Sir Shapurji Billimoria Foundation is a charity trust founded in 1998 to promote Integrated Education in India Integrated Education is an innovative teaching methodology that not only includes but integrates gifted, normal and special children; poor and rich children; disadvantaged and privileged children; sharing the same class in school The foundation believes in integrating the methodologies of general, special and remedial education so as to create one unified system of education SSBF offers India?s only Integrated Education Teachers? Diploma, affiliated to the SNDT University and National Council for Teacher Education, Government of India UNICEF declared it as one of only five such courses across South AsiaIt also conducts seminars and short term courses to propagate integrated education With India?s Right to Education Act, 2009 which obliges all schools to enrol in each class 25% children from poor and disadvantaged background, this becomes particularly relevant SSBF has leased a plot in New Bombay to build an Integrated Education complex It will include a teacher education centre, a school, research and resource centres Besides building the brick-and-mortar complex, SSBF aims to create and run the same courses on-line to expand the reach nationwide For the past fifteen years, the trust has carried out its activities based on the donations of well-wishing individuals and corporations Our ambitious plans, critical for improving and expanding education in India, can be realised through your donations, however small