Talks between the Minister for Education and the ASTI, TUI and INTO unions over the teachers' supervision dispute have been described by the ASTI as "very disappointing".
The dispute escalated last night with the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) telling its members not to work alongside non-teachers in some schools from next Monday.
ASTI said the Minister for Education, Dr Woods, made "no concrete offer" and plans for its members to withdraw voluntary supervision duties on Monday will go ahead.
The country’s biggest secondary teachers union, the ASTI, is due to withdraw from voluntary supervision on Monday, but most schools will stay open because of the Department of Education’s success in recruiting non-teachers.
However, the TUI has decided not to work alongside the non-teaching supervisors brought in to replace ASTI members. The TUI says teachers are the most appropriate personnel to supervise students and that the introduction of non-teachers will change the ethos of schools and create other problems.
Speaking on RTE's Morning Irelandthis morning, general secretary of the TUI Mr Jim Dorney said the union did not want to see schools closed and that he still believed a solution to the problem could be found.
He repeated calls for the 120 "joint union schools", where TUI and ASTI members work alongside each other, to withdraw supervision if non-teachers were brought in.