There have been "conversion course" MSc courses in UK universities for a long time - when I was doing a CS first degree the department ran one of these courses

There have been "conversion course" MSc courses in UK universities for a long time - when I was doing a CS first degree the department ran one of these courses and, presumably to save money, the MSc folks would share some of our classes. Usually they were completely lost but at the end of it they got a "better" degree than ours, which was annoying...