![Professor Peter Shergold's report has offered sound proposals to make the university entry process more transparent.](/web/20161123073725im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/4/p/l/y/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gsrdct.png/1479807836456.jpg)
ATAR improvements a good start
Universities will have to be more transparent about how they use ATARs and other criteria in admissions. That will rob them of a key - yet often misleading - marketing message: that high ATAR admissions equal prestige education.