As another student in the same school at the same airport in this affair I'd like to clarify a couple of things -
1. It is not a money making scam as our integrated course times are Take Off to Landing plus 15 minutes for taxi (which often works out better for us as taxi/hold times can be long). Students who do the full-stop and taxi back can stop the clock so to speak once they've vacated the active i.e. the taxi-back time is not counted as air time. The Hobbs time is only for maintenance use and has nothing to do with this. Yes it's a pain and the days of getting 8-9 landings in a 1 hour solo are gone, but we shouldn't be any worse off financially/flight time.
2. The local German school at the airport do NOT allow touch and go's on solo's either, although they do allow landings at uncontrolled fields whereas our school do not. There's no doubt that the full stop and taxi back would be alot easier at a smaller uncontrolled field than a busy airport. Perhaps this should be raised to them as any pilot with a few brain cells should be just as capible of landing at an uncontrolled field as controlled.
3. There have been a number of instances where aircraft have ran off the runway for a number of reasons, mainly because of bad piloting.
Therefore the school have had to do something, dont you think? It is really unfortunate for the rest of us that a few individuals who are clearly incompetent have ruined it for the rest of us, but sadly thats how life works sometimes.
Perhaps WG100 should discuss their concerns with management at the next weekly senior management meeting with students rather than complaining about it on pprune?