The University System

Residential educational institutions in New Diasporia, at least in the Highlands tend to follow the monastic traditions rather than the German based university model of the progressive period. These institutions are infused with the rhythm of the liturgy through participation in the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. While not all students will participate in each activity, some members of the community will participate all functions on behalf of all the members.
Even the largest universities tend to be divided into colleges. Each college is centered around the four part structure of its chapel, library, dining hall, and houses. For many colleges the fifth structure consisting of the monastic community of monks and/or sisters also exists.
There are several key elements which make these schools different from those that existed in the progressive era. First the requirement that students attend formal meals in hall. This has many benefits in both physical health and spiritual wellbeing. Next of course the houses are all gender segregated. More over each house has its own chapel, where is reserved the Blessed Sacrament. Broadly speaking the environment of each house room, often decorated and named, is designed to edify the occupants rather than drag them down to some common level of perceived equality.
Although education continues to in some way an optimal combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, exams and coursework, it is not limited to the relationship between teacher and student or even between student and student, but also between all and God.
Since it is impossible to build the total man or woman without recourse to the
pillars of grammar, mathematics, and rhetoric this is the basis of education in all subjects. History and language, mastery of both Latin and Greek, as well as modern language stands as primary requirements for later mastery of science and engineering.
As in previous times there is no substitute for the rule of thumb which says that one must spend at least 10,000 hours to master a field. The idea that one can putter around for a few hours a day for eight months a year and somehow earn a degree as an expert in the subject has been purged. Students are expected to spend a majority of their time on studies, for most of the year. This makes time off, primarily on Sundays and feast days, as well as the joyous seasons of Christmas and Easter all the more sweet.

Ownerhsip for the common good

One of the basic premises of Christian social cultural interaction is the responsibility of the landowner to utilized his land not only for his own profit, but also for the common good. An extension of this is the concept that except in certain limited cases it is everyman's right to access public and privately owned land for the purpose of recreation and exercise. This is often called the right to roam and is instilled in Highland law. It does not include garden land, commercially developed land, with the exception of most agricultural or common land.
Access rights apply primarily to access on foot. Rights to fish or hunt are often constrained to some extent. As are rights for exploitation, for example the difference between picking berries to eat and picking them to sell, or even bake into a pie.
Since roads are relatively uncommon on most high TL Highland worlds access to most areas is by portal or air. Beyond that most places are joined by tracks or trails, some of which are quite long. Cross country hiking, in places where the fauna is not dangerous, or only a little dangerous, is common practice.
One may not disturb others or damage property. Use of powered vehicles, especially land bound vehicles may be restricted, either by the landowner or more broadly by the local government.
This is a strong positive right, in that only the government can restrict it under most circumstances. Private landowners have a right to privacy in their own homes, the right to limit hunting and fishing on their own land and the right to set aside gardens of reasonable size. Larger tracks of agricultural land is generally accessible, though the roamer bears responsibility to ensure that no damage results to crops due to his presence.
These rights do not apply to Church land which is used for religious purposes, such as Church grounds, monasteries and convents. It does apply to mountain, moor, heath down and waterways used for mundane purposes, including supporting cloisters and charities.
This right includes permission to camp in wilderness areas, provided zero-foot print camping methods are used. It also includes the right to ski, ride and fly to these areas.

Nanomaterials

Products using nanomaterial and biomaterial technologies become common at TL F. They should not be confused with nanotechnology, which is a much more advanced technology which requires a much greater capability in cybernetics and nanomachines. Nanomaterials use particles and structures in the nanoscale, that is 1-100 nanmeters.
Nanomaterials are primarily passive or respond to macro stimuli as opposed to nanotech devices which are in reality nanomachines. Nanomaterials started to become available in the early 21st century. They were primarily constructed during this period through gross chemical engineering process and only later do manufacturing process utilize nanotech factories or other advanced techniques.
Nanomaterials provide a wide range of material characteristics. Nanomaterials are widely used in surface coatings, material finishes and films. An important aspect of nanomaterials is the quantum mechanical effects that allows the properties of nanomaterials to be vastly different from the same substances which do not have these properties.
Many devices at TLE and above use nanomaterials in their construction. In many cases the use of these materials allow devices to be smaller, lighter, and work better  than using conventional materials. Such products range from use in the fields of medicine to electronics, fabrication, chemistry (where nanomaterials act as a catalyst) to optics.