After secondary education is completed, China then allows Hui students who are willing to embark on religious studies under an Imam.[468] China does not enforce the law against children attending Mosques on non-Uyghurs in areas outside of Xinjiang.[469][470] Since the 1980s Islamic private schools (Sino-Arabic schools (中阿學校)) have been supported and permitted by the Chinese government among Muslim areas, only specifically excluding Xinjiang from allowing these schools because of separatist sentiment there.[471]