Bethany Hiatt

Teachers from 10 WA Catholic schools will test an artificial intelligence tool that rapidly speeds up marking and creates assignments in moments.

Hundreds of new teachers are being fast-tracked into WA schools this year after two universities revived their one-year teaching qualifications to help tackle crippling staff shortages.

The research was based on a series of interviews with 30 WA teenagers.

WA Labor’s promise of full-time kindergarten is expected be a ‘10-year project’ as principals expressed worries the promise was focused more on cost of living issues instead of educational benefits.

Renowned parenting expert and author Maggie Dent has slammed moves to bring in full-time kindergarten for WA four-year-olds as another attempt at ‘stealing childhood’.

Supermarkets are promoting junk food and sugary drinks almost twice as much as healthy options, with back-to-school catalogues showing the biggest price drops for unhealthy snacks, a report reveals.

Perth is now the nation’s second-most expensive city to educate children at a public school, with costs rocketing more than 30 per cent in a year.

School fees at WA’s most expensive private schools will surge to a per cent which is nearly triple the inflation rate.

Honey prices are likely to rise after the bushfire that came close to wiping out the coastal town of Cervantes tore through prime bee-keeping territory.

The soaring cost of living is the number one issue pressing on WA teenagers’ minds, with more than half citing it as their top concern in Australia’s biggest youth survey.