GCSE DT vs NCFE engineering technical award

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DS chose GCSE DT but has been offered the engineering tech award instead (DT oversubscribed). He chose DT as it sounded more creative than the engineering. He’s very good in the workshop at home and has good wood working / metal working skills. It’s only the 2nd year the school are offering the tech award and it’s difficult to get much info. He’s chosen triple science so may benefit from a slightly lighter option of the DT / engineering choice.
Any advice re pros and cons of each would be much appreciated.

"He chose DT as it sounded more creative than the engineering."

I think this is something you should make sure the school is aware of. I presume the engineering course is a bit more academic and less practical, and when they realised they would need to push some people from one to the other to balance numbers, they probably started with the more academic kids. However if he particularly wanted something practical to balance things out, perhaps they will look at whether there's someone else who might be more ambivalent about it.

Thanks for your reply.
DT is a GCSE and engineering is a technical award (my understanding is a distinction is equivalent to 8.5 GCSE grade). I think the TA is less academic / more vocational.
I wonder if the coursework for DT might be a lot alongside triple science so the engineering might be a slightly easier option but worry the syllabus sounds a bit boring!
GCSE Dt is Eduqas and the engineering TA is NCFE board