Talks are due to take place between the Education Minister and the secondary teachers unions.
Last week 27,000 members of the TUI and ASTI held a day long strike, in protest at changes to the junior cycle.
Around 350,000 secondary school students were forced to stay at home last Thursday as their teachers took to the picket lines for a second time.
The Minister for Education Jan O'Sullivan says she has already moved on the issue of teachers marking their own students exams for the Junior Cycle, with the requirement now down to 40 percent, rather than the 100 percent initially proposed.
However unions say there is still some distance between the sides.
Dr Pauric Travers will again chair the talks between the Minister and the unions.
However, the ASTI and TUI say they'll hold further industrial action in coming weeks if there's no breakthrough.
