0 a degree given to university or college students who have passed their exams, but not well enough to get an honours degree
1 a degree course that is designed to be finished in three years instead of the usual four
A student going to a university for three years can obtain a degree, whether it is a pass degree or honours degree.
It does, indeed, offer a three-year pass degree and a four-year honours degree.
You need six credits for a pass degree and eight credits for an honours degree.
I should have thought that one could have a two-year pass degree.
It was a three-year course for a pass degree.
But practically every university has dropped that three-year course for a pass degree; so we are now discussing something quite different.
I am the last person in the world to run down or to decry the value of a pass degree.
I believe that the same principle should apply to, say, a man with a pass degree who is doing sixth form work.
