The Education Minister has urged secondary teachers to call off a strike and go back into new talks.
The row is over changes to the junior cert which would mean that teachers would have to mark 40 percent of their students exams.
Jan O'Sullivan is dismissing claims that asking teachers to grade their own students will lead to corruption.
Teachers will strike next Tuesday as part of the dispute, with TDs raising concerns that "pushy parents" could force teachers to give students better marks than they deserve.
But that notion is not accepted by the minister.
