Why capability
Because expiry should be a signal, not a surprise.
Training often lives in a spreadsheet and expires quietly.
EMERGE already treats a missing or expired requirement as a signal that becomes an action with an owner. Education is designed so that what it produces, evidence of learning and capability with a date and provenance, is the kind of record that loop can use.
Education prepares the person. The Workforce portal is in restricted owner testing, including the consent-based handover of current Education capability alongside work-related checks and site requirements. Testing uses synthetic capability records; access is by invitation only and the service is not yet generally available. The planned EMERGE connection would link organisational needs and resources to the service; it is not live.