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The social and economic development largely depends on the qualification of specialists with university education and their capability to generate and utilize innovations. Instead of the narrow specialization, a model of training a flexible specialist of XXI century is discussed, designed to foster a specialist capable for effective adaptation and learning life-long. The model emphasizes the need to strengthen the scientific and humanitarian focus in the training process as an important factor for its quality enhancement. The scientific focus of training provides for the systemic character and deepness of knowledge in parallel with time saving. The purpose of humanistic training is to foster personal qualities in a student, on the principles of integrity between training and moral upbringing, pluralism, scientific character and secularism, humanism, focus on the human factor. Humanization of the higher education is based on the creative pedagogy and creatology as a scientific field about creativity of training, when a student is not merely a listener but a teacher's partner. The training process based on the humanistic paradigm makes emphasis on the student's personality and humanizes him/her. Also, other tools to improve training for students are involved: economic training, to foster market-specific competencies; language training, to attain proficiency in Ukrainian as the official language and one of foreign languages; physical training.