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Chapter 4 - Alfea University

The most academically rigorous university in the Alfea realm, it has the Oxbridge-style architecture and has world-class facilities like the Red Fountain, the Golden Auditorium, the Cloud Tower, its own nanoworld, etc. It only accepts newbies and transfer students who have achieved extraordinary feats and/or documented their hardships, just like top universities. The goal of this college is to help integrate changelings into adapting to lifestyles of Winx realms and the Earth, and being a guardian takes 5 years of studies which is a physical and mental toll. However, they also have mandatory courses (Invocation, Winxology, Cognitive Analysis, Self-defense, Internship, Philosophy, Ethics, and Laws) on how to use and control the person's Winx and the grading of these courses is slightly lenient. Alfea offers a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate degrees which are more academically and professionally inclined. There is no pre-med and pre-law in Alfea, nor "magical degrees" like, Divination and Magic. Alfea has lots of clubs and societies and shows no mercy to rule-breakers according to rumors. Study duration is 4 years with 6 courses per semester except the last semester of their courses and one-month long breaks. Final exams are held on final week of each semester, while midterms are held in eighth week of each semester. Their last semester in Alfea University is the internship where changelings must apply their knowledge in application. Counselling services are in high demand and students live in dormitories which are tall as the Burj Khalifa to accommodate students only. The academic staff have living quarters in their offices, while culinary students and lecturers cook for students. On the six courses, four are major core courses, one Winx course, one is a general elective outside their major. Third and fourth years are allowed to choose major electives. Failing the major core courses can cause a student to be expelled, while failing a general elective or Winx course can cause a student to be held back for a semester. If a student wants to be a guardian, he or she has to take Language, Cultural and Elemental studies and Winx Alteration Project and have to take more major and general electives of their choice. It is not required for a changeling to reach a specific winx form in order to graduate. Sports-wise, Alfea University has athletic teams and sororities, and hosts multiple university festivals, like the Sorority Sports Month, Cultural City, etc. Alfea University is fully government-funded, with zero tuition fees due to its contributions to research and development. Alfea has its own huge graduate school where students can continue their studies up to PhD. The Alfea library, is a huge tower where books and archives have been stored with age-reversing spells and are barriered in glass. The simulation room was the magnum opus of magic and technology, where everything virtual is real. There are a variety of labs catering to different scientific disciplines, monitored and supervised by robots, in the cloud tower, the tallest tower in Alfea university. The red fountain serves as the mandatory combat room for combat classes and the hub for student-led and club-led activities, with the red water serves as the safety net. 

Alfea University is founded immediately after Alfea is founded where some changelings reunite each other and saw a land of flatness and forests. Initially, Alfea University teaches magical and non-magical courses, and the Red Fountain, the Golden Auditorium and the Cloud Tower are the landmarked original facilities of Alfea, until the fairies colonized Alfea and separate them from the main building, where Red Fountain is an all-boys college of defense and academics, Cloud Tower is a university for non-fairy magic, and the Golden Auditorium is relocated to GaoYue. Under Solarian colonization, Alfea University became Alfea College for Fairies, an all-girls college focusing on only magical studies, and earning Enchantix is necessary in order to graduate, but there is an influx of those who gained Enchantix after the assassination of the fairy king of Alfea, and the reindependence of Alfea University. Later, the academic staff phased out magical degrees due to the fear of repossession by Solaria, and they found out that the only way to gain true Enchantix is to focus their beliefs in their powers to defeat anything that is a roadblock to their goals. The Enchantix users who helped regain the independence of Alfea are then gifted tokens of appreciation, which is the legend of the tradition of the holiday: the day of the gift which those who gained Enchantix are given presents, but this holiday is flexible. The goal for Alfea University is to establish bilateral relations between the normal and the abnormal world, by preparing the Winx and Magic users to transition into normal world.