A student going to a university for three years can obtain a degree, whether it is apassdegreeor honours degree.
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It does, indeed, offer a three-yearpassdegreeand a four-year honours degree.
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You need six credits for apassdegreeand eight credits for an honours degree.
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I should have thought that one could have a two-yearpassdegree.
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It was a three-year course for apassdegree.
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But practically every university has dropped that three-year course for apassdegree; so we are now discussing something quite different.
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I am the last person in the world to run down or to decry the value of apassdegree.
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I believe that the same principle should apply to, say, a man with apassdegreewho is doing sixth form work.
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Apassdegreeof one university is very different from apassdegreeof another; an honours degree is vastly different again.
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The licentiate membership is equivalent to apassdegreein chemistry, and the graduate membership is equivalent to an honours degree in chemistry.
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The college threatened to fail her, but finally gave her apassdegree.
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He did not attend his exams and was given apassdegreein history.
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All other graduates are awarded apassdegree.
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I remember that in my day a very large percentage of those who obtained degrees obtained what are called pass degrees.
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Men with third-class honours or pass degrees in chemistry or one of the biological sciences and men with ordinary or general degrees in science may now be deferred.
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