Link to the AAIB report on the accident.
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resou...BB%2007-07.pdf
I remember during my PPL training (2001) my instructor made me spend a lot of time going from slow speed in the landing configuration to climbing away as if going around etc, all done at height. Also practised, and tested on the skills test, turns with flaps down and purposely bleeding speed off to the stall and recovering. I can't recall doing this early on in the training, and don't think it was before my first solo flights though, but luckily I had enough flying experience in the past that MAY have got me out of such situation that this student encountered, but for an inexperienced person, such awareness or training may not have been taught yet. A real tradgedy for all involved.
Quote from the end of the AAIB investigation:-
Conclusion
During his second solo flight the student was instructed
to carry out an unfamiliar and non-standard manoeuvre.
Presented with a situation beyond his experience, he
failed to reconfigure the aircraft for level flight. The
aircraft continued to fly level at a power setting which
the available evidence indicates would have been
insufficient to maintain flying speed, and eventually
the aircraft stalled at a height from which recovery was
impossible.