The analysis summarizes regulations and conciliation of international documents since the mid 1990's to date on quality assurance and environmental activities, the key competencies of framework guidelines of the Council of Europe, covers economic, social, environmental components of sustainable social development in respect to education; global analysis of the quality and safety of human life is considered as a system of components - economic, environmental, social and institutional dimensions in the process of environmental awareness and complianse. The reseach gives theoretical grounds for the contents and structure of graduate training of future ecologists, defines its essence in acquiring the education and qualification levels of the respective higher education degrees and qualifications, namely, Junior Specialist - technician-ecologist, with basic higher education Bachelor degree - ecologists, with higher education Master degree - ecologists, university teacher (in the fundamental areas), Specialists on Standartization, certification and quality, environmental management (for specific areas) and civil servant (public administration). Requirements to international standards on education and environmental manegment quality are defined. It was proved that innovative learning technologies promote the development of creative activity and independence of students, which positively affects the quality of graduate training of ecologists. Theoretically grounded is a complex of pedagogical conditions that ensure implementation of ecological graduate training (environmental awareness and general environmental component of the vocational training of those conserned, organization of educational process with legal regulatory and technical documents, representation in the process of learning the social and ecological demand for sustainable development, transfer of scientific research and design activities in the graduate training of students-ecologists, favorable environment for integration of education, science, innovation, information for academic training). Implementation of the above mentioned conditions contribute to the effective functioning of the graduate training model of future ecologists. The proven criteria that comply with staged training components were evaluated on three levels: adequate, structurally enhanced, progressive rational. Thus, experimental data confirmed the effectiveness of the developed model and the proposed criteria had a positive effect on the graduate training of future ecologists.
