Suggest Totara Learn features:

TL-16371 Enable category permission checking in programs/certifications.

If a user is given the ability to create programs/certifications it is not possible to limit that ability to a particular course category, because the category permissions are not checked - the user will have access to all the courses on the site..

This improvement would be useful where the roles and capabilities of users need to be clearly delineated across a Totara Site.